Food and produce processing company J. Kings has filed a lawsuit against the Riverhead Town Board and Planning Board, accusing the town of illegally stalling its application for a hard cider mill at its facility in Calverton. READ
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John King describes a proposed cider mill at Grapes and Greens. (Credit: Tim Gannon)
Will a hard cider mill inside the Grapes and Greens distribution center on Sound Avenue result in a nightclub-like atmosphere, denigrating the quality of lives of its neighbors?
That’s the fear of some of those neighbors, who came out to a meeting Thursday to protest a proposal to create a 38,000 square-foot cider-making facility inside the 108,000 square-foot building that once housed Blackman Plumbing and in 2012 was converted into the Grapes and Greens “agri-park” facility with $500,000 in funding from the New York State Economic Development Council.
However vacant space remains at the building; the application in front of the Planning Board calls for making alcoholic cider, with bottling and tasting onsite.