SOUTHINGTON, CT — Plainville’s loss is now Southington’s gain, as a retail operation dedicated to supplying homemade winemakers/beer brewers is moving into town.
The Southington Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday, Aug. 20, unanimously voted 7-0 to approve a site plan application for Northeast Winemaking to build a new facility at 1601 West St./Queen Street in Southington.
Currently located in Plainville, the winemaking/brewery retailer will eventually move all operations to Southington, said Severino Bovino, Vice President of Kratzert, Jones & Associates of Milldale (Southington), which represented the applicant before the zoning board.
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Northeast’s plan is for a new 10,640-square-foot development (one that will also feature a 6,080-square-foot expansion).
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The facility’s application calls for a wine-making operation and a testing room.
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“It proposes a wine-making operation with a small tasting room within the operation here,” Bovino said at Monday’s PZC meeting. “The operation is currently in Plainville and they will be moving to Southington.”
He said the site will be on about 3.088 acres of land with 35 parking spots and no food would be produced on the site, just wine.
Bovino said the planned hours of operation are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday; 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays; and select Sunday hours during prime wine season, which is usually late-summer/early fall.
He said the applicant also plans to work on the site’s exterior aesthetics. “We have proposed appropriate landscaping around the perimeter,” Bovino said.
Earlier this month, the Southington Conservation Commission and Inland Wetlands & Watercourses Agency unanimously approved a permit for the project.
Northeast Wine Making specializes in selling necessary supplies and ingredients for home wine-making and beer-brewing.
It also hosts classes to help folks learn how to brew their own beer and make their own wine.
Northeast Winemaking currently is in nearby Plainville at 10 Robert Jackson Way, Plainville, and another, seasonal, site in the Boston, Mass., area.
Local zoning board members had minor questions and easily approved the application, including one wine-making connoisseur on the PZC.
“I’m really excited that your coming so I don’t have to drive to Plainville for my wine-making supplies,” PZC member Caleb Cowles said.
From Aug. 12: ‘Winery Development On Tuesday’s Southington PZC Agenda: UPDATE’
For more information about Northeast Winemaking, click on this link.
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