AP:<\/strong> Exactly. Exactly. Bottles & Cans, again – in a stretch of North Center, where there was a moratorium. You know, and I think people were kind of nervous about lifting that moratorium, and what that might mean. Again, we went on the front end, we went out to the community.<\/p>\nThe owners went out, they actually live in the ward, they talk about what kind of stuff they want to carry – they\u2019re not going to be carrying highboys of…I don\u2019t know. Old English. They\u2019re not carrying 40’s. They\u2019re catering to a crowd that buys craft beers and high-end wines, and so people embraced that concept immediately. And they\u2019re doing well.<\/p>\n
Again, we get folks to come in and say, this is our pitch. This what we want to do in the ward. And we try to link them up with a community group in the area right away. I feel like people want to at least be a part of the conversation, and not feel like they go to a community meeting when it\u2019s a done deal. Because at that point, you\u2019re either saying \u201ceh, I guess I\u2019m okay with it\u201d or \u201cI absolutely hate it, and now I have to figure out what to do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re in on the front end of it, you might say, \u201cwell, I\u2019m not really sure about it, but I\u2019m glad you\u2019re coming to me on the front end, and we can talk through some of the issues.\u201d And it\u2019s not a done deal at that point. You can talk through the issues. Talk through hours. And not everyone is happy at the end of the day. But they feel like they were part of the process, and the process was honest.<\/p>\n
Brewers and brewpubs who wish to contact Alderman Pawar and give us more awesome stuff to drink right in our neighborhood, visit Chicago47.org<\/a>. This means you, Three Floyds.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A chat with the “Brewer’s Alderman;” Ameya Pawar of Chicago’s 47th Ward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[858],"tags":[512,761,939],"yoast_head":"\n
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