NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — One long gestating project is expected to be completed this year but another one has been delayed yet again for a legal opinion.

 

Rising Glass Brewery at 515 Curran Highway was back before the Planning Board on Monday night to renew an expired permit. 

 

Jonathan Spinney of 515 LLC had first applied back in 2018 for a special permit to transform the former Eagles Hall into a brewery, working on a farmer's brewery license, and kitchen. In 2021, he was approved for a patio on the property.

 

"It took an incredibly long time to get a clear title from the Eagles," he said. "And we all know what's happened over the past several years."

 

Now, he said, with a new permit in hand, he anticipated opening in November.

 

"We're planning to put in a roughly 335 person capacity group of with restaurants serving our beer, wine and liquor as well as having an event space," he told the board. "It's the same footprint as the the same original footprint. The same area, the same parking. Nothing's changed from if you remember the Eagles."

 

It will be slightly smaller than the Eagles most people remember though as the wooden additions on the original metal building will be removed. Spinney said they were such bad shape it wasn't worth repairing them.