Catawba Valley Brewing will expand to Asheville.

The brewing equipment is already in hand, and once final city permitting is signed, construction will begin. “After we have approval, it will be 60-90 days” until the brewery opens, he said.

The governor did not come to town. The city and county did not hold hush-hush meetings. Citizens are not being asked to pay more taxes to help. Nobody is bragging about the jobs that will be created and the economic multipliers. Private-sector businesses have to destroy jobs for publicly-financed businesses to claim their high success rates.