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Brian and Susan Lieberman enjoyed visiting distilleries on vacation, so now they’re launching their own Sailbird Distilling Co. in St. Augustine. BY SCOTT SAILER STAFF WRITER
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fter years of watching the Discovery Channel’s “Moonshiners” docudrama, Brian and Susan Lieberman thought they could learn to make alcohol spirits. Lieberman said he and Susan enjoyed visiting local distilleries and toured more when they traveled. Why not learn to how do it and become a destination for other people, they thought. They did their research and decided to try it. Brian Lieberman said they have been working for about a year toward opening Sailbird Distilling Co. at 215 W. Davis Industrial Drive, Suite A, west of St. Augustine. Lieberman, 49, an information technology project lead for a local bank, said he has a science background and knew they could do it. He attended a class at a distillery in Tampa and now they are at the point of production. Susan Lieberman, 53, is a parish administrator for a church in St. Augustine and a founding member of the St. Augustine Sailing Sisters. They started the regulatory process first with the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, a division of the U.S. Treasury Department, for a distilled spirits plant permit. They had to lease a nonresidential space for the distillery with a zoning designation of industrial warehouse. The use also requires approval of a special use permit for a microbrewery. St. Johns County issued an occupancy license for spirits manufacturing. To operate the tasting room and retail space, Brian Lieberman applied for the special use permit.
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The company is working to open a marine composites manufacturing plant in North Jacksonville.
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Brian and Susan Lieberman work on their distillery at 215 W. Davis Industrial Drive, Suite A, west of St. Augustine. They intend to make limited-edition handmade liquors of about four to six 80-proof 750 ml bottles at a time. Brian and Susan Lieberman own Sailbird Distilling Co. The couple says so far they have invested about $25,000 in the project.
Collins Aerospace Corp. continues to hire and build-out space for its Engineered Polymer Products plant in North Jacksonville that could employ more than 100 people by the end of 2020. The plant has been almost a year in the making. Collins Aerospace is the combined United Technologies Aerospace Systems and Rockwell Collins. It will open the marine composites manufacturing plant in a 140,400-square-foot building it will lease at 10531 Busch Drive N. in Imeson International Industrial Park. Developer Imeson International Industrial Park Inc. of Orlando filed site plans with the city for a 182,910-squarefoot expansion to the building, creating a distribution center of 323,310 square feet. EnVision Design + Engineering is the civil engineer. The Imeson developer said SEE MATHIS, PAGE 2
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Brooks plans $43M rehab hospital Brooks Rehabilitation announced Dec. 17 it will develop a $43 million, 60-bed rehabilitation hospital next to its Bartram Park campus in South Jacksonville. Construction will begin in late 2020 or early 2021. Patients will begin using the hospital by 2022, spokeswoman Jill Matejcek said. The 115-acre Brooks Bartram campus, at southwest Interstate 95 and Old St. Augustine Road, offers assisted living, skilled nursing and memory care facilities. When it was constructed in 2013, space was left for future growth.
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