March 15, 2013

Fawn Brook Inn taken off market, reopens

Will Erickson, left, joins Hermann and Mieke Groicher amid the rustic elegance of Fawn Brook Inn’s dining room. The Groichers are putting off retirement while they train Erickson to take over the restaurant in Allenspark. Jonathan Castner / for BizWest
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ALLENSPARK — For Hermann and Mieke Groicher, retirement will have to wait.

The Groichers, ages 77 and 78 respectively and married for more than 45 years, had planned to relax after 33 years of running Fawn Brook Inn, the gourmet restaurant housed in a log cabin at 357 Colorado Highway 7 Business Route in the Boulder County mountain town of Allenspark. At the end of May, they announced that the inn was for sale.

On Monday, Feb. 25, however, Mieke Groicher called agent Rob Lewis at KL Realty in Allenspark and took the property off the market.

It wasn’t an issue of no…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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