Notch Brewery Archives

2021 Year in Review

By all accounts, 2021 was a complicated year. While we came out of the worst of the pandemic and saw projects move forward in significant ways, there is still...

Speedway Progress Update: November 2021

Rounding things out, we were so pleased to have the opportunity to talk about The Speedway as a historic preservation case study with Preservation Mass earlier this fall. AHF’s...

The Speedway Progress Update: May 2021

6. New Tenant! We’re trilled to welcome our first creative operator to The Speedway! Joining Notch at the complex will be Tipping Cow, a Somerville-based manufacturer of gourmet, allergen-free...

From WBUR – “How Virtual ‘Hell Nights’ – And A Lot of Cans – Are Helping Massachusetts Breweries Survive This Brutal Winter”

March is finally here, but Massachusetts craft brewers are still struggling to reach the end of this long, cruel, pandemic winter. We reached out to a few brewpubs, tap...

The Speedway Progress Update: October 2020

One year has passed since AHF broke ground at the Speedway. On that sunny October day, surrounded by our partners and neighbors, we never imagined that such a gathering...

The Speedway Progress Update: July 2020

The courtyard and Building F under construction. Photo by Ella Rinaldo. Where to begin? When we posted our first Speedway progress update in early March, we never imagined a pandemic...

From Architecture Boston – “Shifting Gears: The historic Speedway complex—hidden in plain sight along the Charles River—gets set for a reawakening”

If winter is cold and dark, at least snowdrops and the promise of spring give us hope and hint of new life. The cycles of change—to cities and the...

AHF and DCR Break Ground at the Speedway

Yesterday marked a turning point in the Charles River Speedway project, as AHF, DCR, and local leaders and community members officially broke ground at the historic recreational complex....