New 15,000 square foot distillery, tasting room and workforce housing in Killington seeks permits

By Polly Mikula 

KB22 LLC submitted its site plan and PUD application to the town of Killington proposing a new 15,000 square foot distillery, tasting room/restaurant and workforce housing off Route 4 in Killington. The entry would be 85 feet east of the Greenbrier, before the intersection with Route 100, according to the site plan and PUD application submitted to the town by Nicole Kesselring, president of Enman Kesselring Consulting Engineers. 

The proposed development would be on 5.6 acres of a 58-acre parcel and would include the development of a distillery with a tasting room/restaurant, a warehouse building, and an 8-unit multi-family dwelling building, marked as “workforce housing” on the plans. 

The 15,000 square foot distillery building would be used mainly for manufacturing (12,600 square feet) with the remaining 2,400 square feet developed to be a tasting room and restaurant. A separate warehouse building and an 8-unit multifamily building would also be constructed on the 5.6 acres as part of Phase 1.

The distillery tasting room is permitted for 200 seats (two meals per day), according to the wastewater and water supply system design submitted with the site plan and PUD application.

Phase 1 shows 103 parking spaces — exceeding the 80 required.

In the future, a 60-room hotel will be part of the development but is not part of this Phase 1 application. 

Construction is anticipated to begin later this year following the issuance of state permits and is anticipated to take 18 months, according to the site plan and PUD application.

The development review board will hold a public hearing of the plan Thursday, Feb. 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the Public Safety Building and via Zoom.