Mounds Park Sports Bar was formally known as Mounds Park Lounge, which is old stomping grounds on the East Side of St. Paul to many patrons.  Mounds Park Lounge was closed in the fall of 2012 for unclear reasons, but some say the bar needed a makeover.  Bill Spiess long time dream was to own a bar on the Eastside where he was born and raised, being a high school graduate from Johnson High School.  When the oppurtunity arose for Bill there was no doubt in his mind that he wanted to buy this bar.  Bill was leasing the bar and in the process of remodeling  it when someone had threw a moltiv cocktail in the window starting a small fire.  This did not stop Bill from continuing to pursue his dream of opening a bar and he purchased the bar in March 2014.  After several months of remodeling and only 3 weeks before the grand opening, someone threw a moltiv cocktail in the window again starting a very large fire, but this time it was all caught on video survellance.  The suspect was never caught, but still this did not stop Bill from his retirement dream.  Once again he put in numerous hours upon hours to rebuild the bar with numerous people helping out and on August 29, 2014  Mounds Park Sports Bar opened it's doors to it's customer's for the first time.