Danico Brewery Co. finally buys Tower Road land after pandemic delay

After being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, a brewery has purchased onshore successful northeast Denver with plans to unfastened adjacent summer.

The owners of Danico Brewing Co. paid $800,000 Monday for the 1.5-acre undeveloped batch astatine the southwest country of Tower Road and 66th Avenue, according to nationalist records.

As BusinessDen antecedently reported, owners Nikki Harwood and David Lotierzo submitted a tract improvement program successful 2020 proposing a 6,400-square-foot brewery connected the property.

Harwood and Lotierzo had primitively hoped to unfastened by mid-2021, but conscionable arsenic they were aiming to adjacent connected the onshore the pandemic hit.

“It was rather the escapade to get to this constituent with banks’ unwillingness to lend successful the COVID environment,” Harwood told BusinessDen.  “Understandably, you privation to marque definite you’re limiting your risks.”

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The brewery volition person 10 to 15 beers and basal brew connected tap.

Harwood said erstwhile they were trying to get a concern loan, they were asked by lenders however their concern would fare with 25 percent to 50 percent lawsuit capableness (as nationalist wellness orders mandated) and whether it would beryllium sustainable astatine that rate.

But she said it gave her and Lotierzo clip to refine their plans.

Danico — which is simply a operation of David, Nikki and Colorado — volition diagnostic barrel-aged beer, arsenic good arsenic non-alcoholic drinks similar basal brew and kombucha.

Harwood said they anticipation to interruption crushed connected the brewery soon, but they mislaid a batch of “good summertime months” for construction. She plans to beryllium unfastened by adjacent summer.

The brewery is going to beryllium mostly the aforesaid arsenic the archetypal plans called for, but Harwood said they volition summation their fig of taps from 8 to betwixt 10 and 15. Plans to service vino person been nixed. Danico won’t service nutrient but volition bring successful rotating nutrient trucks.

Courtesy of Danico Brewing Co.

Danico Brewing Co. volition person indoor and outdoor seating and rotating nutrient trucks.

“We benignant of conscionable stayed the people and made immoderate changes for the wellness and information of our customers, and we added much communal seating than idiosyncratic seating,” Harwood said. “Pretty overmuch everything other volition enactment the same. The concern exemplary is astir being a family-friendly spot and catering to a wide scope of people.”

Danico volition person a children’s play area, chalk partition and “little porthole doors” that let kids to spell successful and retired of the building, Harwood said. The brewery whitethorn adhd a rooftop patio and a packaging installation down the road.

Harwood said she worked astatine Anheuser-Busch for 15 years until 2018 and was a brew maestro astatine the company’s determination successful Fairfield, California. Lotierzo, who worked for the institution for 10 years until 2017, was the planetary manager of warehouse and safety.

The 2 met astatine the company’s Fort Collins determination successful 2007 and person been homebrewing unneurotic for years.

Harwood present works arsenic manager of engineering for a nutrient manufacturer, portion Lotierzo works arsenic a consultant. They said they expect to enactment astatine Danico afloat clip erstwhile the doors open.

Other breweries located adjacent the airdrome see Dry Dock Brewing’s North Dock, Ursula Brewery and Green Valley Ranch Beer Garden.

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