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Underground Kitchen & Delicatessen is partnering with the developer of the newly-renovated, historic Garver Feed Mill on Madison's East Side for a restaurant and social space called Garver Events.

The restaurant will cater to families, but the real heart of the project is a community space for weddings and other events that owner Jonny Hunter said the East Side needs.

"The Garver Feed Mill is trying to figure out how to engage the public, so we're going to have a social space that's going to have some programming," Hunter said.

He plans to host events similar to the 2-year-old Makeshift Festival, which features local restaurant vendors and artists in a different city park each summer, although the festival is taking this year off.

"It's going to be one of the most impressive event spaces in Madison," Hunter said. "There's not a lot like it. It will create this super-centralized East Side destination that will draw people to it."

The new space will also allow Underground to better collaborate with nearby Olbrich Gardens, for which it does a lot of catering.

The restaurant and bar space will be "pretty low-key," healthy, and family-friendly, Hunter said.