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The Fargo Beer Company has signed a lease for a brewery location at 610 N University Drive in Fargo. This building formerly housed Great Plains Plastic Molding and Rehab Systems and is at the corner of University Drive and 7th Avenue North. It house their production brewery when the equipment they ordered (link) arrives alone with a tap room with room to expand.
The Fargo Brewery location looking South with University Drive on the left.
The lease is will officially begin on March 10th but their landlord is currently cutting the floor to install floor drains, painting and other maintenance to get the building ready.
The Fargo City Commission accepted and filed an ordinance on Dec. 10 that would establish a new kind of brewing license. The class “Y” brewing license was approved on Jan. 7. Fargo Beer will be the first brewery to receive the license.
The company‘s legal entity name is Fargo Brewing Co. LLC, but they have been doing business as the Fargo Beer Co. while they have been having their beer brewed for them at the Sand Creek Brewery in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Once they start brewing themselves in Fargo by the Summer , they plan to change their name to the Fargo Brewery.
More information can be found at the Fargo Forum article – link
Fargo Beer Co’s pictures of the building – link
An aerial view of the Fargo Brewery location looking South.
A view from where the tap room will be with 7th Avenue on the left.
The floors being cut for the installation of drains in what will be the brewhouse and fermentation areas.
