Comments on: Historic Iron City Brewery

By: nitram242

nitram242 — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:43:59 +0000

It’s a nice old plant

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25165196@N08/sets/72157625032390135/

By: Rhett Bice

Rhett Bice — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:32:15 +0000

I heard there is going to be a video art event there soon.

By: John Morris

John Morris — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:43:51 +0000

The potential is there for a kind of “Brewers Row” since the Church Brew works,brewery, restaurant, brew pub is in easy walking distance up Liberty Ave.

Penn Brewery was having issues with it’s landlord on the North Side and I think may be looking.

As I said once again–the main issue for the city is increasing the city’s population and raising the density, walkability and transit links in the core city. We are overloaded with “attractions of one for or another”, that one drives to to. This hasn’t even worked in Baltimore which is much closer to vast population centers.

Pittsburgh needs to become a good, convenient and practical place to live.

By: Andrew Moore

Andrew Moore — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:48:53 +0000

No, they moved their brewing and bottling operations to Latrobe. Click the link in the post.

From the City Paper article, “Bitter Beer,” November 5, 2009:

“Iron City hasn’t abandoned Pittsburgh. He says the company still employs about 200 in the city, many in warehouse and shipping jobs.

“This is where our headquarters are located. We still have our shipping operations here, we just brew the beer in Latrobe. We did that to save the brand because I believe it can thrive again.”

By: Peter D

Peter D — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:08:36 +0000

Hmmm. I thought they just moved their bottling operations, but still brew in PGH. Is that not so?

By: John Morris

John Morris — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:48:02 +0000

Yes a wonderful building and in what should be a practical and great location, right at the edge of the Strip, Lawrenceville and Bloomfield and close to downtown.

I’ve been to a dinner meeting in a lower floor of that building but havent seen most of it.

This is the core issue—-with a decent transit system, and a location already within some walking distance of a lot of things, this would be a slam dunk for almost anything from office to residential, or a nice mix of all three. The rest of the lot could also be built up. But, right now, there’s always a pretty big issue with parking.

For example, there are or were plans to revive Burnam’s classic Highland Building in East Liberty as a hotel. In order to do this they have to tear down the building beside it for a garage.

BTW, The Brewery is, I think in very good shape.

By: Stephen Gross

Stephen Gross — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:11:26 +0000

It’s a beautiful building. What will it take to convert it to other uses?

Another possibility: Are there enough amateur brewers in the city to warrant using the brewery as a multi-micro-brew site? Could be cool…