Comments on: MillerCoors coming to KC?

By: Jim S

Jim S — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:31:51 +0000

I think Dallas would be the most likely location. Isn’t Chicago a bit close to Milwaukee to be considered neutral?

By: Jim S

Jim S — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:30:36 +0000

They are talking headquarters, not breweries. It’s unlikely that they’d relocate those, though I could see a new one being built here someday if the HQ did locate here. It’s also just as likely that if they did build one here it would be for one of their attempts to compete with companies like Boulevard.

By: Alan Birch

Alan Birch — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:53:27 +0000

That’s awesome! Miller makes High Life and PBR, which is all I drink except for occasional Boulevard. The only thing that would make my nectar taste better is if it was HQ’d in KC in direct compeition to the hoosiers at A-B.
Anyone care to comment about Pete Coors’ peculiar political leanings?

By: Joe Medley

Joe Medley — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:02:36 +0000

I have serious mixed fealings about this. It’d be nice to have a new headquarters here. On the other hand, I’ve heard that microbrews are hard to come by in the A-B capital. In other words, what does this mean for my favorite home-town microbrew?

By: mayor of waldo

mayor of waldo — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:36:17 +0000

I’m sure Funk will screw this up.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:49:40 +0000

Chris–have some sugar, man. Possible good news doesn’t have to be crapped on. Cheer up.

By: ChrisM70

ChrisM70 — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:37:20 +0000

It makes sense to set the headquarters in KC – that way you can keep the product close to a highly reliable (and profitable) drunken customer base – also known as Chiefs’ fans.

Of course, MillerCoors would have plenty of options for a location:

1.Perhaps they could move into the almost-empty Sprint “World Headquarters”™?

2. Maybe they could rent out some floors in the building of the layoff-crazy H&R Block?

3. Or, how about buying a warehouse from the bankrupt IBC bakeries?

But let’s be honest – the most likely answer is that they could con the gullible citizens of Jackson County to pony up some TIF money to build them a brand new multi-million dollar place for free on some high-value land near the Plaza!