Barring a massive upsurge in PBR consumption, (Remember when it was the hard seltzer of a couple years back?) the large facility off of the 210 Freeway will probably go dark much later this year. Molson Coors already closed one facility in North Carolina as it restructures and sheds jobs and now Irwindale is on the chopping block.
Personally, I think the location should be re-purposed for housing. I don’t think that even an incubator of smaller breweries could make economic sense and at this point the beer ju-ju is probably so industrial that trying to make something creative there would be like putting on the Brady Tiki Amulet.
If nothing else, maybe some lovely street art can go up on the towers and make that stretch of traffic more bearable.