(Source: Mountain Express, S. Andrew)
Along
with the prospect of a new case of the brews, the Asheville site
proposed for New Belgium Brewing Co.’s new East Coast facility would get
cleaned up: Part of the Craven Street property qualifies for North
Carolina’s brownfields program, a federal and state initiative that
streamlines the redevelopment of property that may be contaminated.
The 17.5-acre site once hosted the WNC Stockyards, a hay warehouse, a
filling station, and an automobile repair-and-painting shop. It’s
property that, among others in our region, has been awaiting “a savvy
developer to revitalize it,” says
Kate O’Hara, project manager at the Regional Brownfields Initiative, located at the Land of Sky Regional Council.
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