English: City of Allentown from east side (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Editor’s note: Allentown is on FIRE with development!
New York City-based Ruckus Brewing would like to put the beer back in the old Neuweiler Brewery in Allentown.
The company announced Wednesday that it had won the right to try to convert the run-down property into a multipurpose development it would call Brewer’s Hill.
The centerpiece of the roughly $25 million project would be a brewery that would produce Ruckus’ line of microbrews and other craft beers on a contract basis, said Josh Wood, a Lehigh University graduate and co-owner of Ruckus.
“It is a big property,” Wood said. “The overall gist of it is about 50 percent — maybe a little less — we plan to use for brewing purposes or something related to that.”
Read more: http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-allentown-neuweiler-butz-brewery-20130102,0,6194957.story
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