Maureen Wallenfang
Appleton Post-Crescent
Published 12:32 PM EST Dec 17, 2019
Reader question: What’s going on with Muncheez downtown? Looks like brick was crumbling off the front of the building.
Answer: Muncheez Pizzeria owner Paul VanderLinden said it’s a renovation project that has been years in the making.
“We are remodeling and replacing the whole front and exterior,” he said. “The brick has been crumbling for years. I’ve been searching for a contractor who would do it for two years.”
Muncheez is at 600 W. College Ave. in downtown Appleton. City records show the building dates back to 1890.
The pizzeria is open for dine-in, carryout and delivery during the renovation. Hours during construction are 3 p.m. to 3 a.m. daily.
Reader question: Any word on if anyone has purchased Darboy Club?
Answer: No. The property is still for sale at N9695 County N in the village of Harrison.
“The sellers have lowered the price to $1.25 million for the entire package. They’re also now agreeable to splitting the property into two parcels,” said Stuart Beduhn, who represents the site through his Beduhn Properties.
A new owner could buy the building and two acres for $895,000. The remaining parcel, just over two acres, is priced at $495,000.
The restaurant/banquet hall closed in June, and Beduhn Properties auctioned its contents in September.
Reader question: Looks like they are building in the lot across the street from Custom Offsets on Eisenhower. What is that?
Answer: It’s Custom Offsets’ expansion, according to city records.
The new site is across Endeavor Drive north of Custom Offsets’ existing building at 3989 E. Endeavor Drive. Both buildings are on the west side of Eisenhower Drive in the Southpoint Commerce Park. It’s an industrial park south of Walmart on Appleton’s east side.
Custom Offsets sells custom wheels and tires.
Reader question: Do you know what is going in across the road from the Veritiv warehouse on E. Vantage Drive?
Answer: This site, like Custom Offsets above, is in Appleton’s Southpoint Commerce Park, an industrial park on Appleton’s east side.
The building you’re seeing is the future headquarters of New Morning Coffee Roasters. The company does primarily private label coffee roasting for food service distributors and coffee shops in the Midwest and Southeast.
It also sells coffee under its own label to consumers.
Construction on the new facility will wrap up this month, but the company won’t move in until March when its new equipment arrives via boat, said co-owner Paul Wisneski.
“We have state-of-the-art coffee roasting equipment being shipped right now from Italy,” said Wisneski.
He and co-owners Dan Jansen and Greg Van Zeeland, all coffee industry veterans, started this company five-and-a-half years ago. Their current location is at 2135 W. Nordale Drive, east of The Bar in Grand Chute.
“We needed to expand. Our current capacity is full at this location,” Wisneski said. “We roast a little over one million pounds of coffee a year.”
The new 20,000-square-foot building can be expanded to twice its size if they need more room in the future.
Wisneski didn’t have the building’s final cost, including the new Italian roasting equipment, but said it was a multi-million-dollar project.
To see public hours for buying coffee at the Nordale Drive location, go to newmorningcoffeeroasters.com or Facebook.
Contact reporter Maureen Wallenfang at 920-993-7116 or [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter at @wallenfang.
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