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Yahoo
21-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Brewery tapping into Cotswold with new location
Sycamore Brewing's growth plans include a second taproom and beer garden at Cotswold Village. The popular South End brewery confirmed plans to open a 7,000-square-foot, family-friendly location there in summer 2026. Plans include an 11,000-square-foot beer garden that will expand into the parking lot. ALSO READ: Four local high school students competing in Cheerwine Festival T-shirt design contest Sycamore is taking over the original facility of Vision Works, which has moved to a smaller location within the 260,000-square-foot center at Randolph and Sharon Amity roads. 'We've just built such a strong brand. In Charlotte, we think that's an underserved area,' says Richard Magrath, Sycamore president. Fans of Sycamore should expect the same vibe as South End, with a focus on events, live music and food quality. Read more about Sycamore's plans on CBJ's website here. (WATCH BELOW: Nourish Up celebrates 50 years of combating food insecurity in Charlotte)
Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Sycamore adding another brewery location in Charlotte
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A longtime Charlotte brewery is expanding beyond its South End base, with Sycamore Brewing announcing plans for a new location Thursday. One of the Queen City's beer-making giants, Sycamore says it will occupy 18,000 total square feet in the Cotswold Village shopping center at the intersection of Sharon Amity and Randolph roads. Sycamore, known for its Mountain Candy IPA, opened in South End in 2013 and moved into new, multi-level digs next door on Hawkins Street 10 years later. This location will remain open. Take a tour of North Carolina's breweries by train; several NoDa businesses are part of the 'bar crawl' The new 7,000-square-foot location will also feature a 11,000-square-foot beer garden, an extensive lineup of house-brewed beers, an innovative craft cocktail menu and a seasonal food menu. It's expected to open in summer 2026. 'We're thrilled to expand into Cotswold and create a place where people can relax, connect and enjoy what we do best,' said Sarah Brigham, founder of Sycamore Brewing. 'With our beer garden, diverse drink menu and community events, this will be a spot for everyone.' Designed with families in mind, the Cotswold location is expected to host weekend brunches, live music and kid-friendly activities. The expansion comes as fellow stalwart Olde Mecklenburg Brewery is amid a multi-location expansion. Meanwhile, other, smaller local breweries have shuttered in recent years. Sycamore also opened a location at Charlotte Douglas International in 2023. Its beer is distributed at major retailers in six southeastern states plus Ohio. Before selling its original property, Sycamore had a large beer garden area that often hosted food truck rallies. There are no other breweries in the Cotswold neighborhood. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Axios
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Weekender: 37 things to do in Charlotte this Valentine's Day weekend
The city is filled with love this weekend. This list features plenty of Valentine's Day-themed events perfect for last-minute date plans, Galentine's outings and speed dating for singles. Friday, February 14 🍴 Treat your beau to a dinner at Sweet Pea's Specialty Shop. | $65 | 5:45pm | Details 💔 Celebrate with friends at an anti-Valentine's Day bash with music and themed drinks at Seaboard South End. | $13.42 | 8-11:30pm | Details 👥 Spend Valentine's Day mingling and networking with local professionals over appetizers, music, and drinks. | $23-$33 | 7-11:30pm | Details 🍻 Toast to the single life at Wooden Robot's party with DIY Valentine's Day card-making or craft a burn book. | Free | 5pm | Details 🕯️ Create a massage oil candle with your date at Market at 7th Street. | $60 per couple | 6pm | Details 🤣 Comedians will share their wildest crushes in a powerpoint slideshow at Protagonist. | Donation based | 7pm | Details 🍻 Take your date to Sycamore Brewing, which will have conversation starters meant to spark a romantic conversation scattered throughout the space. | Free | 7pm | Details 🌹 Grab a free red rose at Disc Plaza in Uptown and stay to view the larger-than-life ice heart. | Free | 11:30am-1:30pm | Details ❤️🔥 Connect with other science lovers at Science on the Rocks, where you can do hands-on labs, vibe to music, and enjoy drinks in the museum without the kids. | Prices vary | 6-10pm | Details 🌃 Enjoy a sultry pre-fixe dinner with live music and drinks at Merchant and Trade. | $222 | 8pm | Details 🎤 Listen to poetry live and create custom shirts at Mack Fly Fresh Printing Co. | $23.18 | 7-10pm | Details 🍺 Test your toss in a beer pong competition at Resident Culture Brewing South End. | Free | 7pm | Details 🎶 Vibe to the 7th Annual Queen City Blues Festival at Bojangles Coliseum. | $82+ | 8pm | Details Saturday, February 15 📚 "Bridgerton" author, Julia Quinn, will host a Q&A session at Queens University's Sarah Belk Gambrell Center for the Arts and Civic Engagement. | Free | 11am | Details 🍵 Celebrate Galentine's Day with high tea, treats and live music at The Ballantyne. | $35-$70 | 1-4pm | Details ⚾️ Learn how to pitch from MLB instructors at Players Athletic Club. | Free | 3pm | Details 🏒 Cheer on the Charlotte Hornets as they take on the Hartford Wolf Pack at Bojangles Coliseum. | $38+ | 4pm | Details 🍫 Grab a beer flight paired with chocolates at Sugar Creek Brewery for their Lovers Fest featuring live music and other drink specials. | Free | 11am | Details 🎶 Ditch the romance and party at Goldie's for their Anti- Valentine's Day Party. | Free | 9pm | Details 💘 Find your love match in a speed dating session at Resident Culture South End. | Free | 1-3pm | Details 🐶 Spend the weekend with your pup at Whitewater Center's Dog Days of Winter event, including a 5K trail race, adoptions, ice rink access, vendors, and clinics. | Prices vary | 10am-10pm | Details 🎤 See Frankie Valli as he makes a tour stop in Charlotte at Ovens Auditorium. | $82+ | 8pm | Details 🤣 Laugh the night away at jokes from comedian Martin Lawrence at Spectrum Center. | $58+ | 8pm | Details 🍾 Vibe to an R&B party at Harold's Chicken & Ice Bar with music from a live DJ. | $25+ | 9pm | Details Sunday, February 16 🥅 Catch a hockey game between the Charlotte Checkers and Hartford Wolf Pack at Bojangles' Coliseum. | $29+ | 4pm | Details 📚 Grab your novel and pull up a chair to a silent book club at Camp North End. | Free | 10-11am | Details 🎤 Listen to Kash Doll perform live at The Fillmore. | $68 | 7pm | Details 🎊 Keep partying with Kash Doll Superstarz. | $20+ | 10pm-2am | Details 🍽️ Enjoy a special Valentine's Day-themed dinner menu and live music at El Puro Cuban Restaurant. | Prices vary | Runs through Sunday | Details 🍷 Plan a wine dinner with your partner at Dilworth Tasting Room Plaza Midwood or SouthPark. | Prices vary | Runs through Sunday | Details 🤠 Seoul Food Meat Co. is celebrating its second anniversary at its Optimist Park location with a rodeo-themed party featuring with a mechanical bull, a petting zoo, a karaoke contest and $1 beer from LaBARatory. | Free | 12pm-close | Details Monday, February 17 🤣 Heckle away at Triple C Brewing in a comedy mic session where the audience can chime in with their own quick wit. | Free | 7pm | Details 🍸 Taste Folia's take on a range of espresso martinis with a friend if you have President's Day off. | Prices vary | 1-5pm | Details 🧶 Learn how to knit a vest at Thrift Pony in Camp North End. | $150 | 7-9pm | Details 🤼 See WWE's Monday Night Raw Live at Spectrum Center. | $58+ | 7:30pm | Details 🍣 Learn how to make sushi rolls at Armored Cow Brewing. | $60 | 6:30-8:30pm | Details 🧘 Grab a yoga mat and take the kids to a yoga session at Urban District Market. | Free | 11:30am-12:30pm | Details Check out more upcoming events on our Event Board. 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Yahoo
04-02-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Infamous Highway Exit Transformed Into Jaunty Arcade Game
We've all encountered troublesome highway exits where drivers are expected to swerve across multiple lanes to make the off-ramp. In some cities, those exits have become local villains. One hobbyist game developer's current project is transforming Exit 3A on Interstate 277 in Charlotte, North Carolina into an enjoyable romp of vehicular mayhem. Teaser footage of 'Exit 3A: The Game' shows a colorful and chaotic jaunt on the infamous stretch of freeway with bouncy crash physics. Developer Mike Ramirez tasks players with safely navigating a truck to Exit 3A. The player's truck can be loaded with a variety of Charlotte-related cargo. Beds can be filled with black and blue soccer balls, a nod to the city's Major League Soccer team, Charlotte FC. Users can also haul orange beer cans branded with white maple leaves, referencing local beer produced by Sycamore Brewing. Ramirez told Axios, 'Every time I show it to people, they go crazy about it. I think in the past five months or so, I've been taking it more seriously.' In real life, exiting drivers are expected to move across three lanes in just 220 feet. Then, the off-ramp leads directly onto an intersection with North Davidson Street. Traffic can easily back onto the highway, further shortening the distance for drivers to reach Exit 3A. Charlotte Magazine explored why the infamous exit sows so much chaos: Exit 3A was designed more than a half-century ago, when Charlotte's metro population was around 281,000 people (today, it's 2.8 million). Deputy Division 10 Engineer Sean Epperson of the North Carolina Department of Transportation says it was probably designed in the late 1960s along with Brookshire Freeway's predecessor, the Northwest Expressway. He holds up a piece of paper: The State Highway Commission's design for the interchange, finalized in 1970, is so old that there's a handwritten note on it that reads, 'NOT ONLINE – DO NOT DISCARD.' On another page of the plan, engineers predicted that 2,100 cars per day would use Exit 3A by 1995. Twelve thousand cars used it each day in 2022, Epperson says. There could be an end in sight for the hated highway exit. A proposal was submitted last year to redesign a significant portion of I-277, including Exit 3A, for the modest sum of $717 million. Exit 3A is thankfully not as dangerous as Interstate 5's Union Street exit in Seattle. So many drivers have crashed due to the dramatic drop to a 20-mile-per-hour speed limit that Japonik assembled a catalog of the most egregious wrecks caught on CCTV cameras. For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
