USA, CO & KY: Boulder-based Fate Brewing Co. leases space for brewery in Louisville

Boulder-based Fate Brewing Co., plans to open a restaurant, tasting room and brewery in the Colorado Technology Center in Louisville, BizWest Media reported on August 1.

Fate Brewing, which will keep its flagship restaurant and brewery at 1600 38th St. in Boulder, leased 14,858 square feet at 1772 Prairie Way in the tech center.

Michael Lawinski, owner of Fate Brewing, said he hopes to have the operation in the tech center up and running by the end of this year. He said the main goal in the CTC is to boost production levels. The company has been brewing at capacity for almost two years, he said.

In a prepared statement, Lawinski said the company is “more than excited to continue its brewing production future in the city of Louisville. We are thrilled to be in the CTC and such a wonderful town, one that I have personally lived in since the early 2000s. I couldn’t be more excited than to pursue our fate, grow our business and dig our roots further into a place we call home.”

Fate Brewing was founded in Boulder in 2013 when it opened its brewpub on 38th Street.

In 2015, Fate Brewing acquired property at 5763 Arapahoe Ave. in Boulder previously occupied by Avery Brewing Co., where Fate Brewing planned to expand its brewing capacity and also open a brewpub.

Lawinski has since put that property on the market, hoping to either sell it or lease it to a brewer.

“We are actively searching for someone interested in the old Avery location and the equipment,” Lawinski said in an email. “It really is suited well for a production brewery.

“Where Fate ran into trouble was through brewpub licensing,” he said.

A brewpub license requires brewing and restaurant facilities to be under the same roof, and at the Avery site, the restaurant and brewing facilities would not have been in the same building.

Lawinski said Fate is on track to open the Fate Ale House in Lafayette in about three weeks. It will be a restaurant, but Fate will not brew beer there.

Ben Blaugrund, owner of Breakaway Business Center LLC and developer of the building on Prairie Way, said Fate Brewing will be an attractive addition.

“They’re going to liven up the CTC, which is in desperate need of restaurants and gathering places for the business park’s employees and customers,” he said.

Chris Ball and Joe Krahn of Cushman & Wakefield along with Jason Kruse of The Colorado Group represented Breakaway Business Center, and James Howser of Gibbons-White represented Fate Brewing in the lease transaction at the CTC.

03 August, 2017