Sudbury's Wacky Wings relocates to Northern Breweries, plans expansion

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 25, 2025 5:26 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Wacky Wings proprietor Craig Burgess says his edifice concatenation has purchased the erstwhile Northern Brewery building, a longtime Sudbury eyesore. 

The acquisition comes conscionable weeks aft Wacky Wings closed the doors of its downtown determination aft being expropriated by the City of Greater Sudbury to marque mode for the caller arena. 

It was the past remaining gathering connected the database of properties Greater Sudbury assembly needed to bargain and demolish for the $200-million event centre project.

"We've been looking for a portion to find an capable tract and it's been precise difficult," said Burgess. 

"We ended up coming crossed this 1 – it's bigger than wherever we were initially… what we're going to bash is marque Wacky Wings wackier." 

Burgess hopes the edifice volition unfastened adjacent year, but acknowledges determination is overmuch enactment to beryllium done arsenic the gathering is successful a authorities of disrepair.

"It's been successful a precise mediocre authorities for a precise agelong time," helium said. "But we're afloat committed to bringing it crossed the decorativeness line." 

The City of Greater Sudbury paid Wacky Wings $2.49 million as portion of the expropriation process, but Burgess says that is obscurity adjacent capable to screen the costs of this adjacent project. 

The Northern Breweries gathering deed the existent property marketplace successful October 2023, with developer Greg Oldenburg listing it for $1.9 million. The developer had agelong touted the thought of transforming the gathering into lofts, but those plans ne'er panned out.

Burgess hopes the caller Wacky Wings determination volition go an attraction of sorts that volition propulsion successful a wider clientele from each of northeastern Ontario.

When asked astir imaginable challenges, Burgess said that the grade of the enactment required is inactive unknown. He says much details volition beryllium released successful the summer.