WEST READING, Pa.\u00a0\u2013 The latest bar to close on Penn Avenue in West Reading has served its last drink. The business is the sixth to shut down in the borough.<\/p>\n
Beer Wall On Penn announced last week that it’s closing after more than five years in West Reading. The business is one among a handful making the same move.<\/p>\n
“These businesses that have been choosing to either retire or, you know, leave for personal reasons, they were through a lot,” said Samantha Kaag, mayor of West Reading.<\/p>\n
Some of establishments with “closed” signs include Say Cheese, West Reading Motor Club, and Nitro Bar\u00a0\u2014 all of which have the same owner.<\/p>\n
Kaag says swirls of speculation as to a cause for the closures aren’t helpful. Instead, she is encouraging kindness in the community.<\/p>\n
“I think everything has its time, and I think some of them happened a little bit closer together, obviously, some for personal reasons,” the mayor said. “Others\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Willow Creek and the Broken Chair (Brewery) \u2014 were retiring.”<\/p>\n
Kaag says new spots are now in the works.<\/p>\n
“The old Say Cheese is being renovated,” she said. “The owners of GNA (Ristorante) have now purchased that, so they’re offering up some fun, exciting restaurant.”<\/p>\n
“We have Broken Chairs. It has a space,” she continued. “Willow Creek has a space. So, we are filling those businesses very quickly.”<\/p>\n
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The Beer Wall On Penn is the latest business in West Reading to close its doors.<\/p>\n
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“We also have some new businesses coming in outside of the spaces that are currently open,” Kaag said.<\/p>\n
The mayor said the borough is trying to entice a younger crowd, and so far, she says the community has showed plenty of support<\/p>\n
“We recently had Fall Fest, which was like, estimated 30,000 people,” Kaag said. “So, I think that shows the community’s resilience to wanting to come together to support these small businesses.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST READING, Pa.\u00a0\u2013 The latest bar to close on Penn Avenue in West Reading has served its last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[116169,116170,4808,736,128,130,129,39067,707,66049,116168],"class_list":["post-277250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-broken-chair","tag-nitro-bar","tag-penn-avenue","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-samantha-kaag","tag-west-reading","tag-west-reading-motor-club","tag-willow-creek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}