Articles Tagged: Big Grove Brewery

See the replay video from Part 3 of our Business Spotlight Series. This installment is all about Growth for the Future.

This month, breweries across Iowa are taking advantage of new changes that modernize Iowa’s alcohol laws for the first time in decades.

The $81.5 million First and First West project roughly doubles the investment in Kingston Village. Plans to fill the flood-damaged site with a casino were dashed, but the Cedar Rapids neighborhood quickly grew while the prime real estate sat empty.

The Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP)’s 25th Anniversary Souper Bowl Fundraiser will be held on Feb. 24 at Big Grove Brewery in Iowa City from 2 to 6 p.m. Participants may pick up their soup in person at Big Grove or choose contactless delivery. “Soupporters” will be able to choose from 15 soups donated by local restaurants.

To celebrate Big Grove Brewery’s Richard the Whale stout, climb aboard for a culinary journey that seeks the white whale of dining through 15 luxurious courses.

Local developers see their revamped design of a $71 million entertainment hub at First Street and First Avenue W — with a plaza connecting a Big Grove Brewery, Pickle Palace bar and grill and other mixed-use space — as a “recipe for a lot of success.”

A mixed-use development featuring a Pickle Palace bar and grill with recreation space, Big Grove Brewery, a potential hotel and commercial and housing space comes to the Cedar Rapids City Council for a vote Tuesday.

As Big Grove works to bring a brewery to Cedar Rapids, it also will be expanding to the state’s capital, extending the popular brewery’s footprint in the state.

Courage Ride, an annual charity bike ride benefiting the University of Iowa’s sarcoma cancer research program, has announced it will resume on Aug. 14 as both an in-person and virtual event.