Obviously, a lot has gone on in the last several months (that's an understatement) - but we are making steady progress on our new facility at 6700 Transit Road.
We continue to have high demand for our beer in Western New York and beyond, including demand for beers we don’t currently have the capacity to make at our downtown Buffalo brewery - which means the need for our new brewery is still very, very real.
The announcement of the new facility came right before the pandemic shutdown. The shutdown caused a few delays in approvals and construction, but overall, we haven’t lost that much time in the project.
In the last few months, with the help of our partners at Iskalo Development, we’ve secured town approval, and just in the past week, we began demolition of the old Clarion Hotel, which will be the site of our new brewery and tap room. Some early demo pics:
While the demolition is ongoing, we are now anticipating preparation of the site for an upcoming ground breaking ceremony! We’ll let you know when we have a date set for this.
It’s a long road to get to opening, but we’ll try to provide more frequent updates (perhaps once a month or so) in the future, so you have an idea of what we’re working on.
We can’t wait to #celebrate our new brewery with you! Thanks in advance for all the support.