Seven months after introducing a major expansion plan, a 5-year-old Southern Tier brewery with ambitious growth goals is now seeking the tax breaks that it hopes will make the project happen.
Steelbound Brewery & Distillery, through its North Delaware Holdings LLC, is proposing to create a new manufacturing campus adjacent to its current operation in Ellicottville, with new production and storage facilities for its products and the grain it needs to make them.
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The business – owned by William Burgee Jr. – already purchased the 20-acre site at 6600 Route 219, including some existing commercial structures with tenants, and now plans to spend $7.4 million on the first phase of its larger project.
It’s also working with Empire State Development Corp. on state incentives, in order to maintain employment, add new jobs and keep the business from relocating to Erie, Pa.
Steelbound currently employs 30 and plans to add another 15 people, at an average salary of $75,000.
That includes renovation of an existing 18,600-square-foot space into a state-of-the-art automated manufacturing facility, including a new canning line capable of filling 60 cans of eight to 16 ounces per minute and a bottling line that can fill 60 bottles of 50 milliliters to 1.75 liters per minute. The project will add a 75-beer-barrel brewing tank to the current 15-beer-barrel system, nearly tripling annual production to over 10,000…
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