Granite Brewery feeling pain of chaos from Crosstown work

Toronto Star writer Francine Kopun says Monday that Granite Brewery, the well-known brewery and restaurant at the corner of Mt. Pleasant Rd. and Eglinton Ave. E., has been hurt by delays in construction of the Crosstown LRT. The seven or eight-year ordeal for businesses and residents in the area has been extended another year with the announcement last week that the system will not be completed until 2022. She quotes Ron Keefe, owner of the brewery: “When it first started, I thought we were going to come through it unscathed. The first three or four years, it seemed to be okay, but in the last year-and-a-half, it’s been noticeable; people are just really getting fed up. We’re lucky, because we have been here so long, we do have a lot of regular customers that are sticking with us, but it certainly has been a challenge,” said Mr. Keefe. He likened conditions to Granite’s early years. He began at the site some 29 years ago. Francine Kopun, Star