Sierra Nevada Progress Update
77 views · Published 5 February 2013 · 2:41 · Indexed 21 September 2026
Channel: WLOS News 13 · 2013 · News & Politics
One of new players on the local beer scene is going through a growth spurt.Sierra Nevada is adding a modest piece to the major puzzle that is the brewing business. It has to do with a critical component in the transportation process, and it's taking a collaborative effort to make it happen. You can see in pictures, the walls going up on the brew house.Concrete forms are placed where the fermenting tanks will eventually sit.Right now, it's truck after truck hauling dirt out, making way for the work going on beyond that sign.The plan is to be brewing beer by sometime next summer.Jaime Laughter, Mills River Town Manager, this project has moved lightning speed.. and I just think it shows they're ready to be here.. they're ready to be producingMills River Town Manager Jaime Laughter gives a lot of credit to the Henderson County Partnership for Economic Development, the group that markets the county and helped land Sierra Nevada.It also helped get this part of the project underway in the Fern Cliff Industrial Park in Fletcher. Including a new stretch of asphalt.Alongside a new section of railroad tracks.They both lead to this transfer building, where trains will deliver grain and trucks will haul it to the brewery.It's a critical link for Sierra Nevada and another tip of the hat to the partnership.The transfer station is the talk of an industrial park that happens to include the Earth Fare warehouse. By Frank Kracher Follow Frank on Twitter @FrankKracher _______________ Follow WLOS on social media: WLOS ABC 13 News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/News13/ WLOS ABC 13 News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WLOS_13 WLOS ABC 13 News on Instagram: https://instagram.com/wlos_13 Subscribe to WLOS on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ABC13Channel/?sub_confirmation=1 Listen to AnchorMOMS, the Podcast: https://wlos.com/news/anchormoms/anchormoms-the-podcast Watch more top local news stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk8Ge6UXHJs&list=PLkVbaoT-aYbIvnEpR0Ct5QQQqYaORUSUH For all of the day’s top local and national news, visit http://www.wlos.com Watch our live newscasts and other live video at https://wlos.com/watch Have a news tip? Send it directly to us: Email us: [email protected] Call the Newsroom: 828.684.1340 WLOS ABC 13 News serves the Asheville, NC area and the rest of western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina. We keep our audience informed through local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of community events, sports and entertainment programming since 1954.
