SEATTLE — One of the first breweries to open in what is now Ballard’s brewery district took a chance on an industrial neighborhood that looked very different than it does today.
When Reuben’s Brews opened in 2012, co-founder Adam Robbings said the area east of 15th Avenue Northwest and north of Leary Way had little in the way of a brewery scene. Within a few years, more breweries followed, helping transform a pocket of industrial land into one of the country’s densest concentrations of craft breweries.
“What committed us to the idea is that we’re not far away from the rest of the city, and there were new residential units coming to the area,” Robbings told KING 5…