Micro Brewery, Rec Center Planned For Downtown Salina
KSAL Staff - Thu 08:30 PM 09/13/2012
A micro brewery and an indoor community recreation facility could be coming soon to Downtown Salina.
A Salina man has big plans for Downtown Salina.
During a chamber of commerce after-hours event Thursday evening, Salinan Brian Richardson announced that he is forming a partner-group that will be opening a micro brewery in Downtown Salina.
Richardson tells KSAL News that the goal is to have the business, which does not yet have a name, to be open in the early Spring. Plans are for it to be a microbrew-pub, meaning that it will brew and sell beer, and will have a full-service kitchen. Richardson adds that they will also brew root beer.
The micro brewery will be located in the 100 block of North Santa Fe, in the former Anderson Leather shop facility.
Along with the micro brewery, Richardson is also working on another major project. He is in the early stages of developing an indoor community recreation facility. He says that that the vision is to have multiple courts for indoor basketball, volleyball, and soccer. He says that it will not be a health club, but rather a rec facility. He will not compete with the likes of Genesis or the YMCA.
Richardson says that the specific location for the recreation facility has not yet been finalized. But he has looked at several locations, and from them he has one in mind. There is no target date yet for the opening of the recreation facility.
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hopeandchange
Thursday 13 September 2012 21:18 Report this comment
AWESOME!! Hope you will have some raspberry wheat on tap!
Iamgonnagetu
Thursday 13 September 2012 22:53 Report this comment
Gee another bar downtown. That chamber knows how to bring good paying jobs to town. NOT.
GETALIFE674
Friday 14 September 2012 00:20 Report this comment
Pretty soon that is all downtown will be is bars. They need to bring in some strip joints downtown.
Logical
Friday 14 September 2012 06:03 Report this comment
People complain about the lack of non chain places to eat in Salina. Then complain when someone does something about it. Some people really would complain about Thomas Edison because of his negative impact on the candle industry. I'm glad a businessman is buying a vacant building and fixing it up with a nice place to eat.
smokeyvalley
Friday 14 September 2012 06:19 Report this comment
Logical...consider the source of the complaints. Hope it works out.
hillbilly
Friday 14 September 2012 06:56 Report this comment
st least someone is interested in keeping downtown Salina alive. Brian does a pretty good job of that. So what it this establishment is a bar/eatery. It will generate tax dollars and a few jobs. For the negative comment about minimum wage jobs, a minimum wage job is better than no job at all. Way to go Brian !!!
ShadowCipher
Friday 14 September 2012 07:28 Report this comment
It sounds like a fantastic idea. I truly hope they can afford to make their location stand out. I would be absolutely ecstatic if it would transform into a fine-dining (or near-fine dining) restaurant like Granite City & Microbrewery down in Wichita. I believe Salina is ready for something similar. Great news either way.
shelster
Friday 14 September 2012 07:38 Report this comment
Both of these are great ideas!! The micro brewery would be something new and different for Salina and there is always a shortage of indoor facilities for basketball and such. Way to go Brian!!
jimdingo
Friday 14 September 2012 07:44 Report this comment
Good idea!! For the naysayers, put your best foot forward and come up with something better.
sensible785
Friday 14 September 2012 10:55 Report this comment
Liking both of these ideas! A more "classy" (for lack of a better word right now) place for adults to kick back and have a meal and/or a few drinks will go over well around here. More so, I am loving the idea of a rec center. Other cities have much more for their youth to get involved in and Salina has been behind the times in that aspect for quite a while now. I think this is great news!
GetAGrip
Friday 14 September 2012 11:02 Report this comment
It will be nice to have another place to eat in Salina. Took my girlfriend to Red Lobster last week. People like usual waiting and we received our pager. Twenty plus minutes later we were called. I thought the dining room would be packed. To my surprise there were very few folks eating and PLENTY of empty tables, yet along with other folks we had a twenty minute wait. Service is getting poor at this place.
THEENFORCER
Friday 14 September 2012 12:06 Report this comment
I myself would prefer topless waitress's at a bar and restaurant instead of the same old bar type settings with a different approach. But bring it on we will enjoy it and one day it will be gone.
Aurora
Friday 14 September 2012 15:53 Report this comment
For to those who complains about having too many bars in Salina...There are far more bars in Aggieville here in Manhattan...You still mad, Bro?!?
Iamgonnagetu
Friday 14 September 2012 16:32 Report this comment
Aurora manhattan is a college town and next to a military base both of which have more people than salina. Its like comparing Salina and lindsborg.
Viper
Friday 14 September 2012 18:04 Report this comment
Thats all we need more drunks in Salina.
Iamgonnagetu
Friday 14 September 2012 18:40 Report this comment
That's where the police make their money is on the drunks.
Iamgonnagetu
Friday 14 September 2012 18:44 Report this comment
Naturally right behind the police you have the bail bondsmen and then the lawyers. So in reality the bars support alot of people.
RedNeckWatch
Friday 14 September 2012 23:07 Report this comment
To quote a great Prophet: "Logical...consider the source of the complaints. Hope it works out." Cheers to the Chamber, entrepreneurs, police, bail bondsmen, lawyers, and drunks!!!!!
THEENFORCER
Saturday 15 September 2012 08:28 Report this comment
redneck you just hung yourself by slandering me in another post making false accusations. Come Monday I will be contacting Ksal and they will face a choice of baring you and turning over your information or facing legal problems. If my lawyer needs to get a court order to get your information then he will but your comments on another post were unwarranted, false with the intent to cause me harm and its time you are held accountable for your comments.
RedNeckWatch
Saturday 15 September 2012 14:08 Report this comment
Is that all you can do is threaten people? You have threatened to sue me, KSAL, and other people who hurt your feelings and its time for KSAL to ban you from the site. I just read another threat you made to SalinaSenior and he/she is tired of it too. You have already been censored for bigoted comments toward the LGBT community and its time KSAL stops your hateful threats of lawsuits, death threats, bomb threats, etc. . . . against other people. I know the law and every lawyer in this county. I also know for a fact that you don't have a lawyer, cannot pay for a lawyer, and cannot get a lawyer to file a friviouls suit and risk a malicious prosecution countersuit. And I know you cannot outspend me or KSAL. YOu are jsut looking for attention but we are not here to feed your histrionic personality disorder (look it up).
Iamgonnagetu
Saturday 15 September 2012 20:15 Report this comment
Enforcer if you need more info on this hateful trouble maker let me know. It is time he goes away.
RedNeckWatch
Saturday 15 September 2012 20:23 Report this comment
Hahahahahahahaha ahahahhahahah. Did you figure it out? You need to go too. This site is feeding your illness. So what else do you think about the MicroBrew coming to downtown? How many jobs will it create? How much tax revenue will it generate? Do you think it generate more jobs and more tax revenue than if it did not open? Hint: the last question is a trick question so think before you answer.
taz69
Thursday 20 September 2012 16:35 Report this comment
We have plenty of stainless fabricators in the area. I hope that you consider using local contractors.