08/19/2026
DAY 47. ❤️🏚️➡️🍻
47 days ago, we took a chance on a nearly forgotten 1902 Creamery in Norwalk, Wisconsin.
When we first walked through the doors, it was overwhelming. Decades of debris, deteriorating brick, old pipes everywhere, damaged areas, a dangerous smokestack, drainage problems… and a building that needed attention almost everywhere you looked.
But we could also see what it could be.
Sometimes when you're in the middle of a project this big, it feels like you're barely making progress.
Then you stop and look back.
Here’s what we’ve accomplished in just 47 DAYS:
✅ Purchased the historic 1902 Creamery
✅ Hauled out 5 dumpsters worth of debris
✅ Received our liquor license
✅ Cleaned out decades of abandoned material
✅ Removed 1 garage bay and fixed drainage
✅ Began brick restoration throughout the building exterior
✅ Filled a large hole in the back of the building
✅ Cut out dozens of old pipes inside the building
✅ Made the historic smokestack safe by removing roughly 75 feet, while saving the original bricks
✅ Held our FIRST EVENT at the Creamery in roughly 40 years — a Vendor Fair & B**r Garden
✅ Began working on grants and funding that could help make the full restoration possible
✅ Started saving those historic smokestack bricks for a future build
✅ Began asbestos and environmental testing so the restoration can be done correctly
✅ Got quotes for electrical, plumbing, the Boiler Room roof, windows, doors, floors, additional demolition, HVAC and more
✅ Began planning out the future kitchen and restrooms
✅ Grew this Facebook community to more than 10,500 followers! ❤️
✅ Welcomed hundreds of people back onto the property
✅ And most importantly… we’ve started bringing this building back into the community. ❤️
And we're still only on Day 47.
There is an unbelievable amount of work ahead of us. There will be setbacks, surprises and probably plenty of things we haven't even discovered yet.
But this building has already survived 124 years.
Our goal is to make sure it survives another 124 — filled again with people, laughter, food, drinks, celebrations and new memories.
The best part has been watching this become more than our project.
Former employees have come back and shared their memories. Families have told us stories passed down through generations. People have brought us old photographs and pieces of history. And thousands of you are following along as we uncover what this place used to be and imagine what it can become.
We aren't just restoring an old building.
We're bringing a piece of Norwalk history back to life. ❤️
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Day 47… and we're just getting started.
