The matriarch of a Morrison restaurant synonymous with hearty Colorado delicacies is promoting her household enterprise to builders after greater than 60 years of being independently run.
Holly Arnold Kinney, whose mother and father opened The Fort, at 19192 Colorado 8 in Morrison, agreed to switch possession to Denver-based agency Revesco Properties, she mentioned in a press release launched Friday.
Arnold Kinney mentioned she had looked for years for a brand new proprietor. Revesco is collaborating with Metropolis Road Traders, whose portfolio consists of Union Station and quite a few beer gardens throughout metro Denver, to accumulate the restaurant.
She expects to finalize the sale for an undisclosed value firstly of subsequent yr.
“I’m delighted to be passing the tomahawk to this workforce,” she mentioned in a press release. “They embody most of the similar values I’ve been in search of in a successor, because it pertains to working The Fort’s enterprise, caring for my Fort household of workers, and taking The Fort to the following stage.”
Her mother and father, Elizabeth and Samuel Arnold, constructed the Fort in 1963 as a reproduction of an unique fur-trading fort. Buffalo steaks, bone marrow and different Entrance Vary recreation drew residents and celebrities alike over the a long time, and the restaurant’s recipes had been preserved in a long-running cookbook collection.
In 2006, the Fort was added to the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations and that of the Colorado Historic Society.
Within the assertion asserting the acquisition settlement, Arnold Kinney touted the CEO of Revesco Properties, Rhys Duggan, who she mentioned “holds the worth of accountable growth because it pertains to respecting the fantastic thing about the land.”
“I’m assured he’ll responsibly look after the sacred primordial Crimson Rocks that encompass us,” she mentioned.
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