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Rocky Flats Lounge Wisconsin-Style Dive Bar Closes
The watering hole for bikers and Green Bay Packers fans on Colo. Hwy 93 has closed its doors and seeks another site, managers said.
BROOMFIELD, CO – The Rocky Flats Lounge, a Wisconsin home-away-from home dive bar on Colorado Hwy 93 is closing.
As first reported in Westword, the biker-friendly dive bar that featured Green Bay Packers games, corn-hole bags and Friday Wisconsin fish fries announced on Sunday that the business would be closing and possibly reopening elsewhere.
A new bar and grill will take its place at the location of the former payroll office of the former Rocky Flats nuclear trigger plant.
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The restaurant suffered a significant fire in 2015, which took time and money to recover from, Westword reported.
As of this week, managers said on Facebook that lease negotiations broke down and the restaurant was looking for a new site.
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"This situation has been extremely heartbreaking to say the least. We hope you all stick with us as we continue our search for another location in the Denver area," the restaurant's Facebook page said.
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