Nice article in the T&T today about the new Tide & Boar Brewing location opening up near Main and Vaughan Harvey.
They said drivers for this new expansion in this particular location included the Junction Urban Village development across the street, the Avenir Centre, and the ready made population of nearby customers in the old west end who would likely appreciate a neighbourhood brew pub.
This is an excellent example of how development begets even more development, and how this can change the character of entire neighbourhoods. While Tide & Boar would likely have constructed a new production facility anyway, without other considerations, they might have simply built a small brewery and filler location in an industrial park. Instead, because of opportunities presented by the construction of the Avenir Centre, and subsequently the Junction Urban Village, they decided to combine their production facility with a new tap room, and build in in the old west end to take advantage of business opportunities. This is powerful evidence to disprove the naysayers who predicted that the Avenir Centre would be a sinkhole and a waste of taxpayer money.
The tap room in the new location will include a pub menu, which according to the article will be different than the current Tide & Boar location, and much more "fun" and pub like in character.
This place should be very busy on game nights when the Wildcats are playing........
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