Distillery will be fairgrounds’ first year-round retail tenant in two decades

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9 thoughts on “Distillery will be fairgrounds’ first year-round retail tenant in two decades

  1. Interesting. Paying for parking is an aspect in real cities. Parking is ultimately not free; if not paid directly then the cost is incorporated in the item sold.

    So, one can pay 8 to 15 dollars for one or more craft alcoholic beverages, but not 10 dollars to park. How about 5 dollar parking or to lessen the risk of a driving infraction, use Uber, Lyft, the bus or kindness of friends to drop off and pick up.

    In any case, this appears to be a undertaking, parking costs notwithstanding.

    1. Paying for parking when it is limited in supply will encourage turnover and makes sense so that everyone who wants to patronize a business can do so.

      It does not make sense to charge money for parking outside of events such as concerts, sports games, or the fair. On non-event days, the fair has far more parking than is needed.

  2. Smith said officials are working to designate fairgrounds entry points for Hi & Mighty customers.

    “The goal is to provide easy access for guests arriving via car as well as via bicycle or on foot,” she said. “This is a neighborhood establishment, and we want it to be accessible.”

    I”d imagine that means they’ll figure out a way to provide parking that is free to distillery customers. I’m hopeful that they’ll indeed make the fairgrounds more accessible to pedestrians and bicyclists. Trying to walk to Fuel games from the neighborhood to the northwest is not inviting when the only openings to the Fairgrounds are on 38th Street and Fall Creek Pkwy, especially when the Fairgrounds doesn’t clear their public sidewalk along 38th Street.

  3. I wish them well, but this is likely a horrible business idea. Location means everything in the success of a business. Even if they can get the parking fee waived somehow, how many people are going to drive to the Fairgrounds, through neighborhoods with a great deal of crime, to buy alcohol from a craft brewery? Not many.

    1. People drive to the Fairgrounds all the time. I’m not sure whether this business will succeed. Being a bit far flung from other food/drink locations might not be advantageous for it, but I’m pretty sure it won’t fail because people are afraid to drive to the Fairgrounds.

  4. Most of the people who drive to the Fairgrounds do so during the day. That’s a huge difference from driving there at night. Most of the patrons of the business will be patronizing the establishment at night.

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