The Brewery District is celebrating the opening of a variety of new services in the first building of its Sapperton development.
Health offices, Take Five Café, TD Canada Trust and Thrifty Foods are now open at the Brewery District, which is located at East Columbia Street and Brunette Avenue. It's the first of several buildings that will open on the former Labatt Brewery site.
The second building proposed for the site will accommodate TransLink's head offices, which are expected to open in 2013.
Wesgroup is building a purpose-built mixed-use building for TransLink with office space and street-front retail commercial floor space at 210 Brunette Ave.
John Conicella, the company's vicepresident of development strategy and business development, told city council earlier this year that the Brewery District will pay $8.3 million in taxes when the development is fully complete. He said the first building will generate $970,000 in taxes, and the second building will add another $4 million.
Labatt Brewery closed its operations at the site at 101 Brunette Ave. in September 2004, resulting in the loss of 133 jobs. In January 2007, Wesgroup received the city's approval to rezone the nine-acre site to a mixed-use site that would include retail, offices, health services, residences and amenities such as parks and plazas.
