Open House at Bristol Works!
May 13, 2016 - Come join us for an Open House Celebration. Free Food! Campus-wide tours, factory demonstrations, tastings and more.
Open House at Bristol Works!
April 4, 2013 - Come visit the Bristol Bakery & Cafe artisan bake shop, the Aqua Vitea Kombucha brewery and Mt Health's expanded facilities at Bristol Works! on the corner of Pine and Munsill Ave. Doors open at 5pm till 7ish for tours, great food, free baked goods and free kombucha samples. Music starts at 6:30. All are welcome!
Bristol Internal Medicine to call Bristol Works! home
February 2, 2012 - Bristol Works! was featured in the Addison Independent for welcoming a new physician's office to the Bristol Works! campus.
Bristol Works adds a physicians' practice, more growth on the way
The ongoing revitalization of Bristol’s industrial park took a big leap forward this week with confirmation that the campus will soon welcome a substantial local physicians’ practice and a new pharmacy.
Porter Medical Center officials on Monday reported that Bristol Internal Medicine (BIM), now located at 6 Park Place, will relocate this summer to a soon-to-be-renovated, 7,680-square-foot vacancy in the Bristol Works complex at the corner of Munsill Avenue and Pine Street.
The impending move gives the doctors’ office much-needed expansion area as it seeks to better serve a growing client base in the five-town area. Moreover, BIM’s relocation will give Bristol Works a major health-care tenant and added momentum in filling a total of 47,500 square feet of space for medical, green energy, value-added agriculture and housing uses.
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Bristol Works! Named One of the Top 10 Stories of 2011 in the Addison Independent
Jan 02, 2012 - The Bristol Works! redevelopment project was named one of the Top 10 stories of 2011 by the Addison Independent.
Bristol business park revived
When Bristol’s largest employer, cosmetics and personal care products manufacturer Autumn Harp, packed up and left in 2009, it also took its 160 full-time jobs.
At the beginning of 2011, however, good economic news came to Bristol. Local entrepreneur Kevin Harper laid out a plan to revitalize the former Autumn Harp plant and turn it into a multi-use business campus called Bristol Works LLC.
He and the other three Bristol Works partners, who bought the park from J.P. Carrara, have big hopes to turn the facility’s more than 35,000 square feet of space into a hotbed for value-added agriculture products, renewable energy manufacturing and health care.
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It's Official, Bristol Works! Now Open for Business
October 27, 2011 - Bristol Works! has been issued a conditional-use permit by the Town of Bristol for the conversion of the former Autumn Harp facility into a mixed-use development.
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Bristol Works! is Featured in the Addison Independent
May 19, 2011 - Bristol Works! is now leasing and ready for more tenants. Read all about the project in the recent article in the Addison Independent.
Bristol business park ready for diverse tenants
The industrial park at the corner of Bristol’s Munsill Avenue and Pine Street has been freshly renovated, renamed Bristol Works and is welcoming its first tenants.
The 5.5-acre site, which has been used for industry since 1897, last hosted cosmetics manufacturer Autumn Harp Inc., which was until it left in 2009 the largest employer in Bristol.
Kevin Harper saw the space as an opportunity to sculpt a new business landscape in Addison County. He and the other Bristol Works LLC partners, who bought the park from J.P. Carrera, now hope to turn the facility’s more than 35,000 square foot of space into a hotbed for value-added agriculture products, renewable energy manufacturing and universal health care.
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Bristol Works! is Featured in the Rutland Herald
February 13, 2011 - Managing Partner Kevin Harper was interviewed for an article in the Rutland Herald on the launch of the Bristol Works! project.
Autumn Harp founder leads Bristol redevelopment project
A group of local entrepreneurs is turning the former Autumn Harp company complex in Bristol into a mixed-use development with a focus on health and wellness, value-added food products, educational services, light manufacturing and housing.
Led by Autumn Harp founder Kevin Harper, the group formed Bristol Works! and purchased the six-acre property in December for $1 million.
The complex includes several buildings totaling 55,000 square feet.
Harper, who sold Autumn Harp 10 years ago, said he and partners Robert Fuller and David Blittersdorf are committed to revitalizing the property that borders Munsill Avenue and Pine and Maple streets.
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Bristol Works! is Featured in the Addison Independent
January 20, 2011 —Read all about the Bristol Works! project in the Addison Independent article.
The heart of the Bristol village may be pumping with a little more economic energy soon.
Local businessman Kevin Harper at Monday’s selectboard meeting rolled out the plan for Bristol Works! LLC, a project slated to redevelop the former Autumn Harp plant on Pine Street and turn it into mixed-use property that ultimately will include a health clinic, school district offices, light manufacturing and housing units.
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Bristol Works! Redevelopment Project is Offically Launched
January 17, 2011 —With the purchase of the former Autumn Harp plant in Bristol, Vermont completed the first step in the smart-growth, mixed-use redevelopment project of Bristol Works!
A small group of local, veteran business leaders has launched Bristol Works!, LLC and recently closed on the purchase of approximately 6 acres and 55,000 square feet of commercial buildings in the heart of the Bristol village. The partners have begun the transformation of the former Autumn Harp manufacturing site into a new, mixed-use redevelopment project that will focus on health and wellness, educational services, light-manufacturing and housing.
“We care deeply about this community, and want to keep working families in Bristol,” says Kevin Harper, founder of Autumn Harp. Harper was the Managing Partner of the Mountain Greens Market redevelopment project, is currently the lead partner of the Bristol Bakery and Café, and now manages Bristol Works!, LLC. “We want to use our resources and skills to re-purpose this site to be a focal point for the creation of livable wage jobs, and to enhance the health, well-being, and economic security of the region.”
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