(Minneapolis, MN) – Since announcing plans to open a future $20-million destination brewery in February of last year, Surly Brewing Company’s path to doing that has been anything but easy.
Nearly two years later, Surly still hasn’t locked down a site yet though it is currently knee-deep in investigating a brownfield option at 520 Malcolm Avenue SE. The company wants help in order to move forward with that location.
Earlier this month, the Community Development Committee of the Metropolitan Council moved to recommend Surly’s request for $550k in funding to clean up the site (at least $545k of it). The funding would come in the form of a Tax Base Revitalization Account (TBRA) grant. With that step now completed, the grant request moves to a full Council vote in January.
You can download the one-page project summary describing the nature of the cleanup tasks here.
By the time surly opens there new brewery there will be another 300 new breweries in the US and demand for there beer will have dropped forcing them to downsize or close.
You of course must be kidding.