For about six months, we have been attempting to keep a secret about Kavarna's future. Today, after months of furtive meetings and hushed conversations, it is finally time to lay the rumors to rest and to announce our intention to move Kavarna into the River Center.

Since its inception, we have been excited and curious about the redevelopment of Green Bay's river front. It represents an important and necessary shift in our city's relationship to the Fox. For 150 years, the river was used primarily as an industrial resource; its banks were lined with factories, warehouses, fish canneries, and mills. With some notable exceptions, the Fox River has been de-industrialized. Finally we are able to put it at the very center of Green Bay's public life, which is where we would like Kavarna to be. This past Summer, we initiated an ongoing conversation with the developers, and together we have found an incredible new home for Kavarna in the River Center.

Picture a larger Kavarna with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Fox River; directly on the boardwalk. Take your Lemon Ginger Green Iced Tea to go and listen to the music in the amphitheater on a warm Summer night. Or, take some chilled Pinot out to our café terrace and have a conversation with your friend as the sun sets over the Neville Museum. Or, book a private party on Kavarna's second story mezzanine! Kavarna will be able to be even more things to more people in a larger and more flexible space that we can call our own.

And don't worry, we promise we'll only change for the better! We're very serious about trying to pin down what makes Kavarna Kavarna, so that we can move that across the river too. We won't be moving until 2009, so there's plenty of time to make sure we do things right!