Urban Chestnut Brewing Company to Open 100K bbls Capacity Brewery, Retail Location in The Grove

{a re-imagined Renard as Urban Chestnut - image by Trivers Associates}

As first reported by nextSTL.com, Urban Chestnut Brewing Company is set to expand in a big way, opening a second location in the 67,000 square foot Renard Paper Company building in The Grove (Forest Park Southeast). To be developed by Green Street St. Louis, the planned LEED certified $10M development will include brewing, bottling and warehouse facilities as well as indoor and outdoor retail tasting rooms.

UCBC opened in January 2011 in an 8,000 square-foot renovated service station in Midtown. Just more than two years later, the effort by former Anheuser-Busch employees David Wolfe and Florian Kuplent is set to expand in a big way. Green Street has purchased the Renard building at Taylor and Manchester and is leasing the property to UCBC. Trivers Associates has been selected as the architect for the project. The new location in expected to open in early 2014.