New waterfront restaurant proposed in Fall River

FALL RIVER – Former City Council President Michael Lund will be before the city’s Licensing Board later this month to request a liquor license for his newest restaurant, Pier 52.

According to plans submitted to the Licensing Board, Pier 52 will be situated at the small peninsula of land located at the end of Ferry Street. Once built, it will be the third business Lund has opened on the shore of Mount Hope Bay, following the Tipsy Toboggan restaurant and the Tipsy Seagull dockside pub.

The plan submitted to the city provides no description of what kind of food the restaurant may serve, but it does show what Lund plans to build at the site.

Pier 52 would be a “seasonal food and beverage facility” consisting of 1,400 square feet of outdoor patio space and a 300-square-foot outdoor grill with 30 off-street parking spaces. According to the plans, the restaurant would be capable of seating roughly 70 customers at a time.

City property records show the 2.1-acre site’s current owner is Northeast Products Co., which, according to documents provided by the Licensing Board, would lease the property to Pier 52.

Lund will speak before the Licensing Board on March 20 and will request an all alcohol seasonal common victualler license from them. If the license is granted, the business would be able to operate seasonally from April to November. Lund has yet to seek a building permit from the city’s Building Department.

Lund, who served on the City Council from 2008 to 2011, opened the Tipsy Seagull in 2008, describing it as a dockside bar reminiscent of the drinking establishments found in Key West at the time of its opening. He followed that venture up in 2012 with the ski lodge-inspired Tipsy Toboggan.