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New Belgium Brewing Company selects the AdvantageWest region for its East Coast expansion brewery.

Date Posted: 4/26/2012

AdvantageWest and Western North Carolina welcome New Belgium Brewing Company to the region!

The nation’s third-largest craft brewer plans to invest $175 million over seven years to build a state-of-the-art brewery in Asheville’s historic River Arts District. The brewery will create more than 154 new jobs by 2020 and is expected to launch production in the first quarter of 2015.

Press Releases
• Asheville-Buncombe Economic Development Commission
• North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue

Website
New Belgium Asheville

Photos & Video
• Video: New Belgium Brewery CEO announces new Asheville Brewery (New Belgium Brewery)
• Video: New Belgium CEO’s Asheville press conference (BeerPulse.com)
• Video: Counties likely to benefit from brewing company development (WSPA-TV)
• Video: Fat Tire Beer maker calls Asheville home (Fox Carolina)
• Video: New Belgium changes in River Arts District (WLOS-TV)
• Video: New Belgium taps Asheville for East Coast brewery (WLOS-TV)
• Photos: Press Conference Photo Gallery (Asheville Citizen-Times)
• Photos: Press Conference Photos (AdvantageWest Facebook page)

Sample Media Coverage

• Area Development Online:Colorado-based New Belgium Brewing Expands Production to Asheville, North Carolina

• Bloomberg Business News: New Belgium picks NC for East Coast beer expansion

• CNBC: As Craft Beer Grows, Some Brewers Spread Out, Others Scale Back

• CNBC: North Carolina Crafts a New Beer City USA

• Asheville Citizen-Times: Hunting for more "buffazelles" like New Belgium

• Asheville Citizen-Times:Brewery expected to speed River Arts District renewal

• Asheville Citizen-Times: Asheville brewers cheer planned New Belgium expansion

• Asheville Citizen-Times: Asheville image attracts New Belgium Brewery

• Asheville Citizen-Times: Attractive firms come to attractive city

• MSNBC: Asheville to be home of New Belgium's east coast brewery

• Asheville Citizen-Times: Asheville is truly Beer City with New Belgium, Sierra Nevada

• Mountain Xpress: Beer buzz - New Belgium picks Asheville for East Coast brewery site

• Mountain Xpress: Beyond the brownfields: New Belgium's Asheville project means land-use recycling

• The Coloradan: New Belgium selects Asheville, NC for new brewery

• Raleigh News & Observer: New Belgium Brewing to build East Coast brewery in Asheville

• New Belgium Brewing Blog: Really Big News! Asheville we're coming for you!

• The Philly Eater: New Belgium Picks Asheville over Philly for Expansion

• Denver Post: New Belgium plans to build $175 million brewery in North Carolina

• CBS Denver: New Belgium Picks North Carolina for East Coast Beer Expansion

• Charlotte Observer: New Belgium Brewing to build East Coast brewery in Asheville

• Community Radio for Northern Colorado: New Belgium Picks Asheville as Site for New Brewery

• Wisconsin State Journal: Breweries look east

• Mountain Xpress: Details of Buncombe County's incentive package to New Belgium

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Testimonial

We are stronger together than we are as individuals. Regionalism is critically important for local developers as we work to improve the economy and quality of life for our citizens. AdvantageWest provides the means for us to think and act regionally.

Dr. Patricia Mitchell
Chair/Local Developers Advisory Council
Ashe County Director of Economic Development

Kathi Petersen , Senior VP, Corporate & Public Relations
AdvantageWest
134 Wright Brothers Way
Fletcher, NC 28732

ph. 828-687-7234
fx. 828-687-7552
Email Kathi Petersen


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