Massachusetts Brewery Not Expanding To Roxborough

ROXBOROUGH, PHILADELPHIA — A Massachusetts based brewing company has canceled its plans to open a $10 million, 130,000-square-foot brewery and distributorship in Roxborough due to the coronavirus.

Massachusetts's Night Shift Brewing announced recently it will no longer expand its operation to the Philadelphia neighborhood.

"It wasn’t meant to be," Night Shift co-founders Rob Burns, Mike O’Mara, and Michael Oxton said of the Roxborough project. "The COVID-19 pandemic shook our business to the core, and obviously almost everything outside of it. We’re lucky that we’re still in operation and able to see ourselves coming out of this crisis intact. But pushing forward on our Philly project has become too dangerous, threatening a potential collapse of NSB if we don’t pull the plug now. So, hard as it is, that’s what we’re doing."

The business was to be located at 401 Domino Lane and had planned to open for business this year.

In their announcement, Night Shift's founders thanked its partners in the Roxborough expansion.

"We’d like to express our sincerest appreciation of, and gratitude for, everyone in the Philadelphia community that has crossed our path," they said. "This group includes, but is not limited to, The City of Philadelphia, Roxborough Development Corp, Roxborough Civic Group, YMCA Roxborough, C.H. Schwertner & Son (our project general contractor), Runcible Studios (our project architect), Alliance HSP (our landlord), the PA craft brewery community (especially the folks at Yards Brewing), the many PA fans with whom we’ve connected, and many, many others."