The Beergarden restaurant, which closed for business this week, is up for sale again.

Owners Jose Camacho and Anthony White bought the Washington Mall restaurant from Stanley Mocklow in December 1995. Mr. Mocklow had owned the business for only a year after he bought it from Geza Wolf. Now Mr. Camacho and Mr. White have decided they also want out of the business.

The ten-year-old business, which serves German cuisine, employs about a dozen people and seats about 120.

Mr. Camacho said he was on the verge of closing a deal with some interested buyers. He refused to give further details.

The restaurant hit the headlines in February this year after it was shut down by health inspectors for almost a week. Inspectors had closed the place down until it was given a cleaning.

PEARMAN SLAMS GUIDELINES BUC GVT Pearman slams guidelines Planning minister Irving Pearman has criticised the Corporation of Hamilton for not having precise guidelines on how far people must set their buildings back from city roadways.

The Corporation has in turn launched a suit against the minister over his decision to allow a planned extension to Woodmont Nursery School, at the corner of Dundonald St. and Cedar Ave., to go ahead.

The issue came to the fore when nursery owner Dorothy Billings received permission in May from the Development Applications Board to build a two-storey extension to the building.

The 999 sq. ft. extension would encroach two feet into the 15-foot road allowance the Corporation set for Cedar Ave. The Corporation sets the road allowance from the edge of the road so as to allow for any future widening.

The Corporation launched an appeal against the board's decision. Mr. Pearman, in a nine-page letter, upheld the board's decision, rejecting the Corporation's claims the extension would break its rules.

In making his decision Mr. Pearman argued the Corporation's approach conflicted with the Development and Planning Act and that it needed to clarify its position regarding road allowances.

The Act specifies land may be set aside by the Corporation, but only if designated for acquisition and only if the land is to be bought within five years.

DESILVA EYES NEW BUILDING BUC PLN DeSilva eyes new building Great Things owner Ralph DeSilva plans on demolishing three warehouses damaged by fire and in their place put in a three-storey building on East Broadway.

The new building, which will be located at the site of the current furniture store, would have 22,475 sq. ft. of floor space. Mr. DeSilva, who has submitted an application for the development to the Planning Department, refused to comment about his plans.

Compiled by Ahmed ElAmin