Mustard’s Last Stand, a 49-year-old Chicago-style hot dog restaurant and Boulder staple, will have to leave its current location because the city is planning to demolish its building. The timeline has been known for more than a decade.
What’s unclear is whether the community is saying goodbye to Mustard’s site, or the restaurant itself.
Mustard’s rents space in Park Central, a city-owned building slated for demolition in late 2027 or early 2028 due to its location in a high-risk area of the Boulder Creek floodplain. City code adopted after its construction prohibits new development in that area. The situation has been public since at least 2013, when The Daily Camera ran the story: “Boulder’s Mustard’s making its last stand.”…