Beer on Water Street: Microbrewery, pizzeria planned for downtown Augusta
A project involving a new microbrewery and wood-fired pizza restaurant is being hailed as a major boost of efforts to revitalize Augusta’s Water Street.
In 2011, father-and-son team Richard and Tobias Parkhurst began investing in redevelopment for mixed use several of Augusta’s Water Street buildings to revive the downtown, where Water Street had been largely emptied of residents during the 1950s and '60s.
Tobias Parkhurst’s latest project, in a new partnership, is the establishment of a new microbrewery and wood-fired pizza restaurant called Cushnoc Brewing Co. at 243 Water St., the Kennebec Journal reported.
Parkhurst bought the building in early 2016, and has been working with the Finance Authority of Maine on a business plan that includes securing financing.
“This is huge,” Augusta Downtown Alliance Executive Director Michael Hall told the newspaper. “It’s the missing puzzle piece. We have apartments and retail and restaurants coming (to downtown Augusta). The impact of this cannot be understated. It’s going to make this place a destination more than it already is.”
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