Clarkston Union owner Curt Catallo is recipient of Quality People/Quality County Award.
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson honored Oakland County residents with his annual Quality People/Quality County Awards this week for their efforts to improve the quality of life of others. Clarkston Union owner and old Fenton Fire Hall developer Curt Catallo was among the winners. Here is the description of why Catallo won the award. "Catallo’s achievements are nothing less than exceptional. By day, he is an ad agency executive; by night, he is a popular restaurateur whose endeavors have put Oakland County on the culinary map. He is the founder of Union Ad Works whose major client is Chrysler. However, Catallo may be best known throughout the region for his unique restaurants which serve his variations on comfort food such as …
Union Joints LLC proposes buying the former pump house from the city, to open a custard business near the old fire hall restaurant.
Salted caramel custard, Faygo Rock ‘N’ Rye ice cream and more — on the banks of the Shiawassee River in Fenton. As the Fenton Fire Hall restaurant makes its way through the site plan review process, Curt Catallo from Union Joints has an additional proposal — restoring the city’s old pump house into a frozen custard building. He presented his ideas for The Pump House at Monday’s city council worksession. The proposal resembles Union Joints’ restaurant and ice cream store in Clarkston, where there is the Clarkston Union and his wife, Ann Stevenson’s, Union General for ice cream, Catallo said. The Pump House in Fenton would feature handcrafted all natural custards, by the owners of the Fenton Fire Hall. Fenton’s pump house is a gem by the …
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City council discusses Union Joints LLC's proposal for the old pump station, at Monday's council worksession.
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Family still lives above Union General Store, eats nearly every meal at their restaurants and has fun doing it.
The owners of two highly successful restaurants, another that recently opened, a general store and an ad agency surely live in a big house on the lake, right? Well in the case of Clarkston Union owners Curt Catallo and Ann Stevenson, not exactly. The married couple still lives in a loft above the Union General store in downtown Clarkston next door to their award-winning restaurant with their 8 and 9-year-old children. “The kids sit down and order food,” Catallo said. “It’s something that’s very throwback, but it appeals to us. For us, it’s life. There’s something old school about living above store. It’s different to have that sense of pride and ownership in our restaurants.” Catallo and Stevenson have been chosen as a finalist to renovate…
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Old Fenton Fire Hall
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Susan OLson
11:03 am on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
What else does the Fenton DDA have on their dollar menu? Why not give other people a chance to buy the pump house? more ›