A new cafe with Vietnamese flavors in East Tosa.
A Mediterranean food restaurant on Mayfair Road in the Milwaukee County Research Park.
Those are among the five applicants with applications for conditional use permits poised for approval on Feb. 24 when the Wauwatosa Common Council meets at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall and on Zoom.
Public hearings on all five applications were held at the last council meeting, on Jan. 27, and the permits were recommended for approval by the Plan Commission at its Feb. 9 meeting. They include the Kidz Cave and Learning Den in a building next to Mt. Zion Lutheran Church on West North Avenue; Flash Laundromats, which is seeking to open past 11 p.m. in the former O'Gorman's West Towne Auto on North Avenue in East Tosa, and Happy Endings No Kill Cat Shelter, which hopes to relocate from its current Forest Home Avenue location in Milwaukee to a new West Blue Mound Road facility in Wauwatosa, across from the Milwaukee County Zoo.
[Update: The council on Feb. 24 approved all the conditional use permits, except the one for Flash Laundromats, after Mayor Dennis McBride said the applicant had withdrawn the application.]
The application for a Vietnamese coffee and tea shop in East Tosa was filed by Barry Yang, with the business name De Sol Coffee & Tea. It is planned for 6927 W. North Avenue, a storefront formerly occupied by Cream City Soap Company.
The project description filed with the city provides little information other than the planned hours, 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., and the business' intention to offer dine-in and carry-out noodles, rice, sandwiches, coffee and tea.
The other permit application is for Hummus Republic, a national chain of Mediterranean restaurants. The new location at 860 N. Mayfair Road would be the chain's first Wisconsin site. The storefront is in a retail building near the west entrance to the Research Park.
"Hummus Republic is a fast-casual Mediterranean restaurant with a passion for meeting the high demand for readily available fresh, healthy food," the project description says.
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