Three restaurant / brewery-related developments in the area:
1. Bell's Brewery is investing $7M in new projects
Bell's will be doing capital improvement projects at its Comstock Township and Downtown Kalamazoo facilities now through 2018. According to the article, this will include a pilot brewery, specialty packaging line, new office space, and waste diversion systems at its Comstock location, as well as a smaller pilot brewery at the Downtown location.
2. Cove Lakeside Bistro will open in July on West Lake in Portage
Located at 9110 Portage Road, the renovated building previously housed Charron's on The Lake and Jason's Cove. The new restaurant will be operated by the growing Millennium Restaurant Group (which has always been hit-or-miss for me in terms of quality). It will also re-employ a former executive chef of the company. I'm surprised that Portage doesn't have more waterfront dining establishments like this, given the number of recreational lakes within the city limits.
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Al Jones | MLive
3. CoreLife Eatery coming to Portage this Fall
CoreLife Eatery is a new 'active lifestyle restaurant' chain started in Syracuse in 2015. According to the article, "...the restaurant chain anticipates rapid expansion. It hopes to grow to 300 locations nationwide during the next five years, including corporate and franchise restaurants." This will be the second location in Michigan, to be located at 6300 S. Westnedge Ave. The first Michigan location is in Grandville, and is operated by the same franchisee.
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Al Jones | MLive