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people in these neighborhoods,” Awtrey said. “On top of that, there are no specialty care providers in the brewery, they needed to increase the electrical service voltage. ey said if they used a natural gas system, it probably would’ve worked, but the upgrade cost was over $100,000 to be electric. e COVID-19 pandemic also played a role.

Another need was to upgrade their water service line. Since they are a brewery, they needed a higher water ow rate. at was also over $100,000.

“ e whole future was uncertain, and it just added a lot of time. Our original opening date was actually like September 2020. But with the zoning issues taking a lot of time, and everything getting shut down, there was a lot of uncertainty,” Tift said. “With that uncertainty, with all of the challenges, with all of the infrastructure issues, it really just made sense for us to step back and regroup.”

Now, they are working on their Littleton location at Bellevue and immediate area.”

SCL Health and Platte Valley became a part of Intermountain Health in 2022 and this is the second location the group has opened in the area in less than a year. e group opened a similar clinic in June 2022 at 217 N. 50th Ave. in Brighton with ey will be serving up between 20 and 26 taps with a couple dedicated to hard seltzers or housemade sodas. People will be able to bring food inside and the brewery hopes four medical doctors and two physician assistants. e medical group has a similar clinic in Commerce City — the Reunion Family Medicine Clinic at 10569 Chambers Road — and a walk-in clinic at 1450 Dexter St. in Fort Lupton. to partner with the other restaurants in the strip.

Lowell. It will be in a strip with seven other businesses and have 4,000 square feet of space.

“We were excited for (the Westminster) location. We had lots of community support, we had a vision for how it’s gonna be, we had the architectural plans drawn up. I could see that brewery, it was really hard to leave,” Tift said.

“ e job of our clinics is not just to take care of community members when they’re sick,” said Campbell. “It’s to keep our community well. We’re proud to play a part in improving the health of our communities by ensuring easy access to high-quality care close to home.”