CREJ - Retail Properties Quarterly - May 2016
Brewery and distillery expansions and openings announced in 2015 in Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson, Larimer and Weld counties.
• Breckenridge Brewery opened a $36 million, 12-acre headquarters facility in Littleton. The facility includes a brewhouse, barrel-aging room, tasting room, restaurant and beer garden. • Boulder-based Avery Brewing Co. opened a $28 million facility in Gunbarrel. The 67,000-square-foot facility is expandable up to 95,000 sf for future projects and includes a taproom, a restaurant, gift shop and outdoor patio. • Great Divide Brewing Co. opened a $38.2 million brewery in the River North neighborhood. The first phase of expansion includes a 65,000-sf bottling, canning and kegging warehouse, and a taproom. The second phase, slated for 2017, will include a brewhouse, beer garden and a skywalk to accommodate large tours.
• Anheuser-Busch InBev will invest $45 million to build a new canning line and construct 25,000 sf of warehouse space. • Fort Collins-based New Belgium Brewing Co. broke ground on a $7 million expansion that will include office space, a tasting room, a beer garden and an on-site health care facility for workers and their families. • Mobb Mountain Distillers will open a 1,000-sf production facility and tasting room in Fort Collins. • Upslope Brewing Co. will open a new brewpub in Boulder in fall 2017 for experimental brewing and barrel aging as well as add a restaurant. • Boulder-based FATE Brewing Co. will expand its capacity by moving into the former Avery Brewing Co. space. • Skeye Brewing’s 3,600-sf space in Longmont includes a brewhouse and a taproom. • MillerCoors Blue Moon Brewing Co. will anchor a 5-acre entertainment district in RiNo that will include a tasting room and will feature a two-barrel pilot system. • New Belgium Brewing will open a 10-barrel, pilot brewery to make sour beers in The Source Hotel in RiNo. The brewery will operate on the ground floor and will age its beer in barrels on the eighth-floor lounge, where it will operate a beer garden. • Laws Whiskey House acquired 31,000 sf at 13th and Cherokee streets to open a second Denver facility. • Tivoli Brewing Co.and the Tivoli Distribution Co. reopened in Denver with a $7 million campus operation that is the first full-production brewery in the nation on a college campus and coincides with Metro State University of Denver’s new brewing degree programs. The facility includes a brewery, taproom and restaurant. • TRVE Brewing opened its new production facility, the 5,000-sf Acid Temple. • Crazy Mountain Brewing Co. opened its second Colorado location at the former Breckenridge Brewery headquarters. The 42,000-sf turnkey includes a brewhouse. • Denver-based Renegade Brewing Co. opened a new production facility at The Yard on First and Santa Fe streets. • Pat’s Backcountry Beverages is expanding in Wheat Ridge into a 17,300-sf facility. • Golden-based Mountain Toad Brewing plans to build Toad Mesa, a 21,000-sf production and packaging facility in the Coors Technology Center. The facility will include a small tasting room and beer garden. • El Rancho Brewing Co.and Lariat Lodge Brewing opened in Evergreen. El Rancho Brewing will include a 10-barrel brewing system and adjoining 500-seat restaurant. Lariat Lodge Brewing will include a five-barrel brewing system and restaurant. Source: Metro Denver Economic Development Corp