Intuition Ale Works Moving Downtown

[Charles Hunter]

So shutting down Riverside this weekend, Aug 27 and not re-opening until Sept 6.

Sure makes sense!   

well maybe they need a week to move equipment, train staff, etc.  Or perhaps they just want a week off.

Nah, obviously it is to tick off mtrain.

[lastdaysoffla]

This is going to be huge for that area. Couldn't have picked a better location or building.  If anybody has ever been to the Ballpark neighborhood in Denver, it is a hugely popular district with tons of converted mixed use warehouses. Very vibrant with with many apartment buildings all surrounding Coors Field.

I would hope IAW moving to Bay St will bring more Riversiders over to Downtown and the area around the Arena\Ball field\Stadium. Right now Riverside is pretty insulated with people only venturing Downtown during the day and special events. Eventually people are going to tire of journeying back and forth and hopefully we'll see infill and new residential buildings Downtown and perhaps along A. Phillip Randolph and Union st. The potential development of the Doro Fixtures building and places like The Boxing Yard in that big budding on Union is encouraging

The surrounding neighborhood actually is pretty nice with grid streets and unique places like Old City Cemetery, although perhaps rightly so, is seen as dangerous. I would like to see more infill in the Cathedral District. More projects like Elena Flats would be awesome.

All in all, this new brewery could be the spark of a new beginning for Downtown and will be looked at in a few decades as seminal.

[pierre]

This is great news. Can't wait to go out there this season.

[finehoe]

This is going to be huge for that area. Couldn't have picked a better location or building.  If anybody has ever been to the Ballpark neighborhood in Denver, it is a hugely popular district with tons of converted mixed use warehouses. Very vibrant with with many apartment buildings all surrounding Coors Field.

I would hope IAW moving to Bay St will bring more Riversiders over to Downtown and the area around the Arena\Ball field\Stadium. Right now Riverside is pretty insulated with people only venturing Downtown during the day and special events. Eventually people are going to tire of journeying back and forth and hopefully we'll see infill and new residential buildings Downtown and perhaps along A. Phillip Randolph and Union st. The potential development of the Doro Fixtures building and places like The Boxing Yard in that big budding on Union is encouraging

The surrounding neighborhood actually is pretty nice with grid streets and unique places like Old City Cemetery, although perhaps rightly so, is seen as dangerous. I would like to see more infill in the Cathedral District. More projects like Elena Flats would be awesome.

All in all, this new brewery could be the spark of a new beginning for Downtown and will be looked at in a few decades as seminal.

I'm sure the CoJ is working on a plan now...to fuck it up.

[thelakelander]

Its definitely not Denver but there is one additional block containing quite a few old warehouses on it:

http://www.moderncities.com/article/2016-jun-george-doro-fixtures-downtowns-next-big-thing/page/





Bringing it back online, combined with the arena, ballpark, IAW and Manifest, would create an interesting node of activity.

[acme54321]

Wow, that wood shop is really cool.

[Tacachale]

My response would be that this location is a lot better than the old location was back in 2010, and they were obviously successful there too. The new location's more centrally located for more people, and in a much more highly trafficked area. While there's more residential around the old place, especially in 2010, the customer base did not live there.

Beyond that, there are a lot more redevelopment and infill opportunities in the Stadium District than it gets credit for. To name a few:

*The Shipyards, former Kids Kampus, and Metro Park are all prime for development
*All of the stadium lots are well set up to be developable, or partitioned for development along the streets
*Relocating First Coast News and WJCT would free up some very enviable space
*The lot behind the A Philip Randolph Garage could be developed, or replaced with another garage to free up space elsewhere
*The Jax Historical Society owns a strip by the Baseball Grounds that is currently used for parking, but if interest is there, it could be developed instead
*The Fairgrounds can't do much else with its block, but it owns at least one other property north of the Garage that could be redeveloped
*There are smaller lots, such as the greenspace just north of the Arena, that could be developed along the lines of the space south of the Arena where the garage and bar is.

Longer term, we also have:
*Lots of available area along Randolph in the Eastside
*Many underused industrial sites to the west
*In 20 years, it'll be time for a new jail and police HQ, which will open that whole block.

All of this, of course, would require a lot of money and political will. But it appears Khan is looking already. More than Denver, the area I'd compare this to is the Arena District in Columbus, Ohio. That area also grew around sports uses (an NHL arena, minor league ballpark, and concert venue), and is mostly infill, rather than rehabs, which is what we'd need here. It took a while, but it's been a major success and if anything, it's helped the rest of its downtown revitalize by adding a lot of new residents and creating continuous blocks of used space between them.

Even without all that, Intuition will make bank on event days, even if things end up slower on other days. You could pick a much worse spot for a bar that also requires a ton of industrial space with high ceilings and truck access.

[jaxjaguar]

If the other warehouses were developed that lake posted and Jax sports taverns upstairs was fixed up/whole place was open regular hours and not just game days, you could do a pretty sweet bar crawl here even on non event nights.

[FlaBoy]

Its definitely not Denver but there is one additional block containing quite a few old warehouses on it:

http://www.moderncities.com/article/2016-jun-george-doro-fixtures-downtowns-next-big-thing/page/





Bringing it back online, combined with the arena, ballpark, IAW and Manifest, would create an interesting node of activity.

For sure. I wish the baseball field and arena had better interaction with some retail on the street...

[Tacachale]

The baseball field and Arena have great street interaction for those types of facilities. The baseball field especially creates activity on both Randolph and Adams on game days, which would benefit Intuition (and vice versa). This would go a long way to making a nice hub of regular activity even without major infill.

[mtraininjax]

The baseball field especially creates activity on both Randolph and Adams on game days

Sadly an entire neighborhood had to be torn down to build the new complexes.

[SuzySpringfield]

Just a reminder: New Taproom opens today!

1pm - 10pm

http://www.intuitionaleworks.com/bay-street-location-opening-announcement/

[jaxjaguar]

I saw some pictures on yelp... It looks freaking sweet! Between this, Sweet Pete's and Cowford Chophouse, Jacksonville will have some great historic renovated venues

[MusicMan]

Glad to see this announcement here. It is not mentioned on their website.

[johnnyliar]

Glad to see this announcement here. It is not mentioned on their website.

The announcement on here is literally a link to their website.