A realty company is looking for someone to serve out the remainder of Sly Fox Brewing’s lease in Pittsburgh’s South Side, suggesting the Pottstown-based company’s only production facility in Western Pennsylvania is winding down.
Legacy Realty Partners announced last week the nearly 6,000-square-foot space in the neighborhood’s Highline complex — referred to as the “former” Sly Fox Brewery in the listing — is available and all brewing equipment is up for purchase.
The site would also work for restaurants or “retail or experiential concepts looking to land in a historic and unique location,” the commercial real estate firm said in a social media post.
Sly Fox did not immediately return an email seeking comment. No one picked up the phone Tuesday at the South Side brewery, which also doubles as a pub, or its tap house near Point State Park in Downtown Pittsburgh.
The South Side location was not open during normal business hours Tuesday afternoon.
Listing agent Herky Pollock did not immediately return a request for comment.
Sly Fox started in Phoenixville, Montgomery County in the 1990s, just as the craft beer boom was getting underway. It now has four locations in the eastern half of the state, including that original brewery and pub.
In 2019, the business expanded into Western Pennsylvania with its Downtown Pittsburgh operation. Three years later, the South Side location opened at the Highline, a redeveloped cargo warehouse along the Monongahela River.
Just last month, Sly Fox in South Side was dinged by the Allegheny County Health Department for lax food safety practices and the presence of mouse droppings throughout the facility. A consumer alert was issued Jan. 8 and lifted Jan. 16.
In a Jan. 15 statement, the brewing company’s Pittsburgh general manager, Jeffery Mando, described steps being taken to address the violations, including thoroughly cleaning food-handling and sanitizing areas, discarding all previously prepared food and implementing procedures to prevent future problems.
“We take these matters very seriously and would never operate in a way that puts anyone’s health at risk,” he said.
