More than two years after making the announcement, Memphis Made Brewing is moving forward with its plans to open a new location in the Edge District at 435 Madison Ave.
The company officially announced plans to open a new 17,000-square-foot location in The Ravine in 2019, but the pandemic delayed plans severely. Now, Memphis Made Brewing is officially moving forward with its plan, according to a recent commercial alteration permit application submitted by Montgomery Martin Contractors, LLC. Construction on the site was scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2023, but the company must make revisions to its plan before being approved.
“It’s a really unique space,” Co-owner Andy Ashby told Edible Memphis in 2021. “The taproom [is] kind of below ground level a little bit, overlooking The Ravine. It’s almost a natural amphitheater, where we can have bands or large-scale comedy shows—whatever we want to do, once things return back to normal.
While the building has been under construction for quite some time now, there is no exact opening date for the new Memphis Made Brewing facility. The entire development is expected to take about 24 months to be completed, according to documentation sent to the Downtown Memphis Commission last year from the Development Service Group, which is the formal applicant and co-developer of the project. Original plans predicted construction would be completed by the first quarter of 2025, with project stabilization anticipated 18 months thereafter.
“Originally built out as “Auto Row” with dealerships, auto paint shops, and even a Ford Motor Company manufacturing plant, the Edge District has seen a long slow decline as businesses vacated the area,” DSG Vice President of Development Ethan Knight said last year in a letter to the Downtown Memphis Commission. “However, the district has seen a recent resurgence due in part to our significant efforts in redeveloping the former Wonderbread Bakery and surrounding parcels. The Rise Apartments, Orion Credit Union HQ, LEO Events, Memphis Made Brewing Company, and the Edge parking garage came to fruition thanks to our 2017 partnership with Downtown Memphis Commission.”
