Something new is brewing at a Gulf Shores business.
Big Beach Brewing has new owners, Kevin Corcoran and his wife, Domini, and longtime friends Doug and Tammy Warren. Corcoran is owner of Re/Max of Gulf Shores.
Big Beach, opened in October 2016, was started by locals Jim and Julie Shamburger. The Shamburgers and their children ran the business, a 10-barrel brewing system with six fermenters that produce 12 beers on tap. The company produces some consistent brews and rotates others.
In other transactions across coastal Alabama in recent days:
- An out-of-state developer paid $1.2 million for 7 acres off Baldwin County 64 and Pollard Road in Daphne, according to Herrington Realty, which handled the transaction.
- Escapology, a new family-friendly escape room concept, has leased 3,997 square feet of space at the Eastern Shore Centre off Alabama 181 in Spanish Fort, according to Colby Herrington of Herrington Realty, who represented the tenant. White-Spunner Realty worked for the landlord.
Escapology, based in Orlando, Florida, has more than 61 locations worldwide and is considered one of the largest and fastest-growing escape room franchises.
- A former old country grocery store built in the early 1950s at 5566 4th St. in Satsuma has sold for $90,000 and the new owner plans to open a dog grooming business there, according to James Henderson of Realty Executives Bay Group, who represented both sides in the transaction. The building was recently occupied by an arts and crafts shop.
- A new Margaritaville Resort Orange Beach at The Wharf will have its official groundbreaking next month.
The new resort along the Intracoastal Waterway will feature signature Margaritaville bars and eateries, entertainment, a resort pool, single-family resort cottages, waterfront condominium units and hotel-style resort units.
- Watch for Wellsbury, a 98-lot subdivision, to be developed south of Baldwin County 32 and west of Alabama 181 near the Fairhope and Marlow areas, according to Baldwin County planning. The first phase will have 50 lots.