USA, MI: Bell's Brewery to open in Escanaba, Michigan

The Escanaba City Planning Commission on Monday, June, 24 approved construction plans for Bell's Brewery planned for the Whitetail Industrial Park off 19th Avenue North, Escanaba, Michigan, Mining Journal reported on June, 26.

Larry Bell, owner of Bell's Brewery of downstate Comstock, is planning to build an 11,550-square-foot state-of-the-art brewery and bottling facility there.

In a purchase agreement Escanaba City sold 3.16 acres in the industrial park to Bell's Brewery for $30,000.

The new business will be called the Upper Hand Brewery. Bell said the $1.3 million construction project will be put out to bid soon with groundbreaking anticipated in early August.

Bell's expansion to Escanaba - an investment totalling $2.5 million - is part of a $15 million company-wide capital improvement project.

Bell's products are sold in 18 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C. Pike Distributors of Escanaba is the local distributor of the company's ales and beers.

28 June, 2013