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45-Year CBD Tenant Taps Former Brewery for Retrofit, Expansion

AUSTIN-Aus-Tex Printing says it's time to move on after spending 45 years in two locations in the CBD. The firm has acquired the former Celis Brewery, a 25,849-sf structure sitting on 8.7 acres. The intent is to retrofit and add 25,000 sf.

By Tim Green | Updated on April 15, 2002

AUSTIN-An Austin printing company is escaping downtown’s congestion and taxes and heading for Walnut Creek Business Park, where it will double the amount of space it’s vacating in the CBD.

Aus-Tex Printing, which has been in two downtown locations for more than 45 years, has bought the former Celis Brewing Co. brewery and warehouse at 2431 Forbes Dr. in the northeast submarket. The seller was Miller Brewing Co. Terms were not disclosed, but the assessed value of the property is $2.5 million, according to the Travis Central Appraisal District. Carpenter and Associates of Austin represented Aus-Tex.

John Eastty, who owns the company with his wife Marie, tells GlobeSt.com that the downtown is no longer a good place to operate a manufacturing firm. “It’s too congested and too expensive to have a manufacturing facility downtown,” he says.

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