“South Park” creators ink deal to purchase Casa Bonita

Casa Bonita volition soon, officially, beryllium successful the “South Park” creators’ hands.

Six weeks after Trey Parker and Matt Stone publicly said they planned connected buying the legendary Colorado restaurant, filings successful national bankruptcy tribunal this week amusement the drama duo person moved to acquisition Casa Bonita for $3.1 million.

Keith Pizzi, a typical with the drama duo’s company, Park County, signed the acquisition statement successful U.S Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado accompanied by the sanction “The Beautiful Opco, LLC.” A hunt connected the California Secretary of State’s Office shows that institution shares the aforesaid code arsenic Park County.

Westword archetypal reported the acquisition statement Monday evening, which inactive has to beryllium signed disconnected connected by a national bankruptcy judge.

The buzz astir Casa Bonita’s aboriginal has been palpable since Stone and Parker successful July told The Hollywood Reporter that they wanted to bargain the Lakewood staple.

“It’s conscionable sitting there. It sucks,” Parker told The Hollywood Reporter. “For a moment, erstwhile it was similar Casa Bonita is going to adjacent down, we said, ‘We’re going to spell bargain it.’ And I felt similar it was the crowning accomplishment of my life.”

Then the brace past period told Colorado Gov. Jared Polis successful an interview that they would beryllium buying the 47-year instauration successful a substance of months.

Stone promised the politician that the food, which has ne'er been Casa Bonita’s calling card, would improve.

The edifice has been closed since March 2020. Its owners, Summit Family Restaurants, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy a twelvemonth later.

With its doors shuttered, the edifice had been losing astir $40,000 a month, according to tribunal documents filed successful April. Casa Bonita, which seats much than 1,000 people, takes up 52,000 quadrate feet down its pinkish palace facade, located successful a West Colfax Avenue buying center.

The restaurant’s existent owners during the pandemic person travel nether occurrence for their attraction of its workers, starring to one favoritism lawsuit and multiple employees reporting unpaid wages past twelvemonth pursuing the restaurant’s COVID-19 closure.

The restaurant’s website since March has said it would beryllium “reopening soon.” Guided tours resumed earlier successful the summertime arsenic the bankruptcy proceedings continued.