No Brooklyn Brewery for Red Hook

Late last year it was announced that the city dumped plans to redevelop the Red Hook waterfront. Now the Brooklyn Eagle is reporting that the "Economic Development Corporation (EDC) is returning to Red Hook’s Atlantic Basin with a symbolic hat in hand, but also with a new development plan that is ready to be executed." The new plan is allegedly less glamorous, but one key business that could rise from the ashes of the old is (appropriately) Phoenix Beverages—a major beer distributor of Heineken, Guinness and Smirnoff Ice! It looks like it would be housed at Pier 11, and NYMag points out that under the new plan they'll be joined in the neighborhood American Stevedoring, "a docking facility for harbor-operated boats, a cultural institution, and a green space." Sadly, this means that "there is no space for Brooklyn Brewery, which hoped to move to Pier 7."

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By Jen Carlson in News on January 7, 2009 4:20 PM

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kswissreject

Now, I don't know Phoenix Beverages's background, but wouldn't they rather have a company that has some ties to Brooklyn than this distributor of global brands? Doesn't that make a hell of a lot more sense?

woodendesigner

I guess they figured they figured that the "Real World" bunch would like this mix of beverages better than the Brooklyn brand beer.

glennQNYC

A "green space?" Is that what has been historically known as a park? How quaint. :rolleyes:

I can't wait until people realize how lame the term "green" is.