Snowensville on the move

By Dave Marner, Managing Editor
Posted 1/5/22

A woman dropping by Snowensville on Monday afternoon to place a food order told workers there her in-laws would be disappointed the current site was closing.

Large kitchen equipment had already …

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Snowensville on the move

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A woman dropping by Snowensville on Monday afternoon to place a food order told workers there her in-laws would be disappointed the current site was closing.

Large kitchen equipment had already been removed and workers were cleaning out remaining items. The customer went away without the opportunity to place an order for her in-laws but wished them well when told by a worker the relocation was
“just up the street” — pointing a half-block north toward in former First Bank building.

Snowensville is closed for relocation and the space Danny Breeden was in is scheduled to become an independently owned Asian restaurant following a remodel, he said Monday afternoon. 

Breeden was finishing moving his Snowensville restaurant equipment into storage on Monday. He is waiting on a fresh appraisal of the former First Bank/First State Community Bank building in Owensville and hopes to close on the purchase of the building sometime in January.

Anthony Reams, a co-owner of the bank building, was also on the site on Monday helping tend to a maintenance issue. “Just getting Danny set up in here,” said Reams when asked what all was going on in the neighborhood. He left to take a phone call and did not return to continue the discussion.

Breeden had inquired at a recent town meeting about applying a MoDAG loan from the city. He has picked up an application, according to city officials, but had not submitted one as of Tuesday. 

On Monday Breeden said he was anticipating the sale of his shave ice Snowensville stand and the the six lots the property its on, along with the sale of his current restaurant building on First Street, to fund his purchase of the bank for use as the new Snowensville eatery. He said he expects to be closed for two months until he can reopen in the bank building. 

Breeden also said he was planning to reopen the parking lot adjacent to the bank and across a city alley for use by building owners and business operators on properties along Peters Street.

He plans to have reserved parking spaces for restaurant employees on the site and allow public use with those exceptions. 

Closure of the lot, which was once site of at least two other businesses, prompted a group of concerned citizens and affected property owners without rear access to their buildings, to attend the city’s Dec. 20 meeting. 

Officials for the city said the closing off of the lot with concrete barricades did not violate any city safety codes. Police and fire personnel still have access to the rear of the buildings through pass-ways between the blocks.

Ray and Madelene Wendt are expecting to close on Breeden’s First Street property on Thursday. The Owensville-area couple is opening the  Asian cafe “Mabuhay” (pronounced Ma-bu-hi) which means “Welcome” in the Philippine Islands.