Canal Park Brewing Company

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1. patrick on July 2, 2010 at 4:22 pm

   Wow! I am excited to see what transpires here. Do you guys have any other details? Who are the owners? Is there any sort of ‘theme’ in mind? Who will be the brewer?

   We will definitely check it out.

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2. vicarious on July 2, 2010 at 5:01 pm

   Sweet!

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3. Claire on July 2, 2010 at 5:36 pm

   Very cool! Paul, you are one on-the-ball dude!

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4. Paul Lundgren on July 2, 2010 at 5:38 pm

   Owners are the same as Canal Park Lodge as far as I know — Island Investment, Inc.

   Rocky Kavajecz is the project manager and a well-known developer. In addition to Canal Park Lodge, he’s part-owner of Hotel Chequamegon and Super 8, both in Ashland; and Country Inns in Duluth, Eau Claire and Menomonie.

   He’s also a part-owner of the Hayward Cinema Four movie theater and is working on a mixed-use project in Mountain Iron that includes a Holiday Inn Express, restaurant, convention center and commercial-retail development. For more about that, read “Rock Ridge developer thinks big with mixed-use $100 million project,” by Wayne Nelson, Business North.

   Rocky’s father, Ted Kavajecz, and other family members are partners in most of his investments.

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5. Adam on July 2, 2010 at 6:46 pm

   Are they going to be able to get an easement to the left of building?

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6. mendoza on July 2, 2010 at 7:55 pm

   Hopefully they offer a “spring ale”!

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7. Jake on July 3, 2010 at 10:23 am

   Good god, Paul, is there anything that happens in Duluth that you don’t know everything about?

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8. Jonny on July 24, 2010 at 12:23 pm

   @ Mendoza

   “Spring Ale”, huh? I see what you did right there : )

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9. zra on July 25, 2010 at 7:24 am

   @ jonny: yeah, we’re a punny bunch.

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10. Doug Determan on April 3, 2011 at 12:14 am

    So this building is now gone. It doesn’t look good for the Canal Park Brewing Co. Anybody know what the plans are now?

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11. TimK on April 3, 2011 at 9:40 am

    The building is gone out of necessity. The new owners of the property got a grant to do a hazardous materials cleanup of the site — it was industrial use for decades. There was a news story within the past month that said they were knocking down the building to make it more cost effective to clean up the area, and then would put up a new building (I assume for the brewing operation).

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12. JW on August 10, 2011 at 7:56 pm

    Anything news worthy about this brewery? It still looks like an empty lot.

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13. Paul Lundgren on August 10, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    The latest word is that construction will start this fall. I think originally they planned to use the old building, but are instead constructing from scratch.

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14. adam on August 11, 2011 at 2:28 pm

    Duluth Tycoons is supposed to open around October as well.

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15. zra on August 11, 2011 at 4:23 pm

    I really hope they don’t call it Tycoons.

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16. jessige on August 11, 2011 at 8:21 pm

    You would prefer Raccoons?

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17. zra on August 11, 2011 at 8:29 pm

    Only if the waitstaff dressed up as Daniel Boone.

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