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Gritty industrial area in transition to get a grain silo; can sheep be far behind?
By adamg on Fri, 10/30/2015 - 4:49pm
In a couple weeks, the Zoning Board of Appeals considers a request for a brewery on Massachusetts Avenue that would feature a 24-foot-high grain silo.
The Dorchester Brewing Co., rebuffed in an effort to move into a building on Bowdoin Avenue in Dorchester, will seek ZBA approval to convert an old sheet-metal warehouse at 1271 Mass. Ave. into a brewery where craft brewers can make their own batches of beer. The plans also call for a cafe and patio.
Both brewing and wholesale distribution is forbidden in the building's zone, so the company will have to explain why the hardship the zoning creates for it requires the board to grant a variance.
The ZBA's hearing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 10 in the board's eighth-floor hearing room in City Hall.
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It's a disappointment that
It's a disappointment that the original plan for Bowdoin Street fell through, certainly. If the board approves this petition to take over an existing business, rather than the first proposal which involved a long-abandoned blighted building, I can't help but feel the need to call shenanigans on this whole damn process.
(Edit: In looking things up, it seems that 1271 Mass Ave, aka the former Peacard and Co, next to the Plumbers Union, is no longer in business and is for lease. My point about favoring areas which don't really need industrial business over those in need of them, i.e. the building on Bowdoin St, still stands.)
Nevermind
I was going to question the address but realized I was looking at the wrong street.
Ay ya ya, Peacard is gone!
Peacard is gone!?
Where now do we go for metal stock!
Woe is us!
Old Mr Boston had a
Old Mr Boston had a distillery up the street at 1010 , and there were others close by. Railcars used to go into Southampton street market, with meat , CO2, and raw alcohol, I believe.. It is most appropriate that this is located at this site.Sears had a terminal almost beside this place ,and Colonial had a meat processing plant nearby on Mass Ave as well. there were a lot of jobs in this area !
Rum distilleries are making a comeback, too
Not on the scale that they once were prior to prohibition, but the interest is there.
Turkey Shore in Ipswich inadvertently built its distillery in the same place as the one that was there in the 17th and 18th century.
There is also Grand Ten Distilling at 383 Dot Ave
I'd love to return rum distillation to Medford ... but my friends are starting with a brewery and going from there.
Wait till Bacadi re-opens in
Wait till Bacadi re-opens in Cuba, un montón de ron . ¡Ay Chihuahua! . mi pequeña bicylist!
But on a more local note,
Dirty Water Distillery
www.dirtywaterdistillery.com/
microdistillery in the heart of plymouth massachusetts.
Dirty Water is a micro-distillery located in the heart of Plymouth, MA. It is run by two brothers-in-law, Steve and Pepi. Steve has a background in computer science, Pepi has a Ph.D. in physics
Better Knot Amber Rum - Aged in a combination of fresh oak, neutral oak, and used bourbon barrels to make a truly special amber rum, perfect straight or for your favorite cocktails.
What Knot - Artisanal White Rum. A clean and refreshing rum that blends wonderfully with any citrus (it makes an awesome mojito). Clean enough to drink striaght - rare for a white rum!
There's also Cisco Triple 8
They make one of the best "pirate rums" that I've had - Hurricane Rum is oak-aged like whisky.
Where is their parking?
No off street parking there.
Park in the Boston Edison lot
Park in the Boston Edison lot,,
The one with the barbed wire fence
and electronic gates?