Monday, May 6, 2013
The Lower Merion commissioners have to approve a liquor license transfer before the restaurant can open. A group of neighbors don't want them to.
A vote to approve the liquor license transfer that would allow an Iron Hill Brewery to open in Ardmore Plaza was tabled again on Wednesday by the Lower Merion Board of Commissioners. According to commissioner Steven Lindner and president Liz Rogan, the restaurant requested the delay to give it more time to address concerns regarding the impact the business would have on neighboring residential areas. The township now has until June 20 to approve or deny the transfer. While the vote was pushed, Rogan took public comment from a large crowd, led by a trio of pastors from Main Line churches, that was uniformly hostile to the idea of another restaurant in Ardmore. The concern animating each of the speakers was the danger traffic in the area …
Thursday, December 6, 2012
"We've been looking for a spot on the Main Line forever," Iron Hill Brewery owner Kevin Finn told Patch.
Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant is aiming for a January 2014 opening in Ardmore, co-owner Kevin Finn told Patch on Wednesday. “We’ve been looking for a spot on the Main Line forever, but we just hadn’t really found a space,” Finn said of the business, which just signed a lease for 60 Greenfield Ave. in Ardmore Plaza. The company has nine current restaurants and another planned for Voorhees, N.J. “We’ve been talking to Ardmore for maybe five years,” he added. “We were really close to signing a lease back in 2009 but it didn’t pan out … it’s an area we really liked.” Iron Hill, a full service restaurant and pub that brews on site at all of its breweries, is one of the fastest growing chains of brewpubs on the East Coast. The size of the …
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
A lease has been signed for a location on Greenfield Ave.
Updated 12/6/12: Read the update to this story, an interview with Iron Hill Brewery Owner Kevin Finn. *** Iron Hill Brewery has signed a lease to open a new brewery and restaurant in Ardmore, according to Lower Merion retail coordinator Heidi Tirjan. The brewery, with nine locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware (and another just announced in Voorhees, N.J.), will be moving into 60 Greenfield Ave., the previous home of Norman Carpet One. “We’ve been working with them for years to get them to come to Ardmore,” Tirjan said. “We’re so excited — I think it will bring not only people from the community but also people outside the community to the restaurant and [downtown Ardmore]." Click "Keep Me Posted," below, to get updates as …
Jim Saunders
6:39 am on Monday, May 20, 2013
It's a great spot for iron hill. There is a ton of parking across the street. I would venture to say it has more parking than anywhere else in the area!!! more ›