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The state government will host a summit on July 15 to shape plans<\/p>\nA boutique hotel trading on its 145-year history is the most likely future for the Boag\u2019s Brewery site, according to the developer helping shape its redevelopment.<\/p>\n
Errol Stewart, who has taken on an informal coordinating role, said hospitality was the obvious path for the landmark central Launceston property once brewing stops.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019ll be hospitality-based, most certainly,\u201d Stewart said.<\/p>\n
He said the site\u2019s heritage-listed buildings and riverfront position made it valuable, but the job was beyond any single developer and would need government, council and industry to pull together.<\/p>\n
Stewart said it was too early to move until Lion locked in its own plans, but the effort should ramp up once it did.<\/p>\n
The state government will host a summit on July 15 to shape plans<\/p>\n
The main site, which Lion has indicated it will sell, covers nearly two hectares, with a further half-hectare across the road.<\/p>\n
His comments came as Premier Jeremy Rockliff announced a plan to lift the economy across the state\u2019s north, with reworking the Boag\u2019s site at its centre.<\/p>\n
Rockliff said the state government would not let the property go to waste.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe won\u2019t allow such a significant site to sit idle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The premier said he had avoided putting a dollar figure on the plan, hoping instead to draw fresh ideas out of an upcoming summit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to limit ideas by putting a number on what potential investments a government such as ours could make,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said Lion would hand back the $1 million the state tipped into the $2.5 million brewhouse visitor experience, with that money to be steered towards ideas from the summit.<\/p>\n
The state government will host the summit on July 15 to help shape the plan.<\/p>\n
The redevelopment talk comes ahead of the brewery\u2019s closure on November 6, ending 145 years of brewing in Launceston and costing 42 jobs.<\/p>\n
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The brewery\u2019s closure on November 6 will end 145 years of brewing. Image \/ File<\/p>\n
Brewery owner Lion, a subsidiary of Japanese group Kirin, has pointed to falling beer sales and says the plant has long run well below capacity.<\/p>\n
Rockliff said he would head to Japan shortly to put the case to Kirin directly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey need to know \u2026 that when you make decisions at the stroke of a pen, it has impacts on people, families and communities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I want to convey that very strongly to the bosses at Kirin, to say that these decisions should not be taken lightly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Deputy Labor leader Janie Finlay dismissed the trip as \u201ca joke\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got Lion here in Launceston today. Why doesn\u2019t he go and eyeball them?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis government is way out of touch with what\u2019s happening, particularly in the north, but right across Tasmania.\u201d<\/p>\n
A government spokesperson said it had stayed in regular contact with Lion and offered support to staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A boutique hotel trading on its 145-year history is the most likely future for the Boag\u2019s Brewery site,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-774723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}