PRESS RELEASE In conjunction with the Economic Development Coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County (EDC), New Belgium Brewing Company announced the selection of Asheville, North Carolina, to build its first expansion brewery outside of Fort Collins, Colorado. The nation’s third-largest craft brewer plans to invest $175 million over seven years to build a state-of-the-art brewery in Asheville’s […]
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Beer buzz: New Belgium picks Asheville for East Coast brewery site
Craft brewer New Belgium will build its East Coast facility in Asheville, officials announced at the Chamber of Commerce.
(Photo by Anne-Fitten Glenn)
Beer buzz: Workers, troopers seen at rumored New Belgium location; Gov. Perdue to make announcement
This morning, city officials, crews unloading hay bales, state troopers and Asheville Police were swarming the Craven Street property rumored to be under contract for sale to craft brewer New Belgium. And this afternoon Gov. Perdue’s office announced she’ll come to Asheville Thursday to make an “economic development announcement.”
In bed with the Brewers’ Alliance
Pisgah’s here. Wedge is here — aloof rock stars of Asheville beer, confident and not entirely lacking in swagger. French Broad is the proletariat of the scene, big and gentle, unstylish, a touch shambling. Highland: the jetsetter, slick and self-assured. All is revelry, echolalic chatter drowning out the jazz trio.
Rumors still brewing: Latest Twitter dispatches on New Belgium’s interest in RAD
Rumors were flying on Twitter today, Dec. 21, about New Belgium Brewing’s ongoing interest in building a production facility in Asheville’s River Arts District.
It’s official: New Belgium looking at Asheville expansion
For weeks, Asheville has seen rumors swirl that New Belgium is considering the city for a new brewery and looking for economic development incentives. Today, Sept. 22, City Council member Jan Davis publicly confirmed the rumors at a Council of Independent Business Owners forum. He tells Xpress that while he welcomes the company, he’s skeptical about the need for incentives.
Incentive country: Behind an ongoing controversy
With rumors flying about local governments’ closed sessions on economic development (a New Belgium brewery?), government incentives for private business are once again in the news. Whether they’re spat on as “corporate welfare” or lauded as “job creation,” they remain controversial as ever.
New Belgium, soybeans and a flashback to 1998
I have two pressing questions today: How did I get on the email list of the United Soybean Board, and is a deal with New Belgium Brewing the latest economic-development incentive package being discussed in closed session by both the Asheville City Council and the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners?
Clips of Faith Rolls into Asheville
New Belgium Brewing’s traveling beer and film festival, “Clips of Faith,” returned to Asheville’s Pack Square Park Friday night, Sept. 10. Local photographer Jerry Nelson was there. Photos by Jerry Nelson