Sushi, anyone?
The Chelsea City Council unanimously adopted liquor license request resolutions from Jason Povlich for two new restaurants planned for 518 and 420 North Main St.
Povlich plans to open a restaurant called The Grateful Crow, which will specialize in sushi, a variety of entrees and burgers. Plus, there will be live music.
He called the restaurant “something that will compliment everything else in Chelsea and be something different.”
The restaurant is planned for the former Chelsea Alehouse Brewery location.
At 518 North Main, he plans to open the Chelsea Roots Café, which will serve breakfast and lunch and alcohol with a selection of coffee choices. There is also the possibility that the café will roast its own coffee beans. This is the site of the current laundromat.
Povlich reminded the City Council that he and his wife have done business in Chelsea for 10 years.
Locally, these businesses include Jets Restaurant at 502 North Main, Jets Carry-Out/Delivery at 506 North Main, and The Rumpus Room at 510 North Main. In addition, he has three Jets locations outside the city — two in Toledo, Ohio, and one in Lambertville, Mich., he said.
In addition, at 522 North Main, he plans to open the Clocktower Creamery, a frozen yogurt, “Fro-yo”place where people can build their own sundaes. The is the former site of Smith Chiropractic.
The goal is to open these “restaurant concepts” in 2019 beginning with The Grateful Crow, followed by the Chelsea Roots Café and then the Clocktower Creamery.
Povlich plans to employ about 50 people.
On Monday, May 7, City Council approved the Local Governmental Approval applications for Class C Downtown Development Area licenses, the first step in the state approval process.
Chelsea City Manager John Hanifan said that these redevelopment liquor license applications are address specific.
(Publisher’s note: a more detailed story on these new establishments is planned in the future.)
The City Council also unanimously adopted a resolution to continue its 80/20 cost-sharing model for the city employees’ health insurance and to refinance three of the electrical department’s currently leased pieces of equipment – a backyard machine, a digger truck and a 55-foot bucket truck.
By refinancing through an installment purchase plan, the annual cost will be about $95,600, a savings of about $35,000 annually.
And finally, the City Council also unanimously adopted a resolution that will allow city staff to submit a Traffic Safety Planning Grant proposal to conduct a road safety audit at the Freer Road and Dexter Chelsea Road intersection.
Included in the resolution is approval that the city agrees to pay up to $10,000 or 20 percent of the required grant match.
The city’s Transportation Working Group has discussed and identified this intersection as having many “challenging factors.”
Among them is the “T” nature of the intersection. Plus, there’s a yield sign there, rather than a 3-way stop and there’s also railroad crossing involved as well.
This location is considered a proposed “Border to Border Trail” connection location and there has been discussion about enhancing the pedestrian connection from the north side of Dexter Chelsea Road to a possible connection in the Heritage Point subdivision.
A study of the intersection would assist in the planning of how best to address the multiple issues of this intersection.
The maximum grant award is $50,000.
If you would like to watch a video of the full City Council meeting, please click here for the video produced by Randy Lee of RK Studios.
