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Zipline Brewing company is coming to north downtown Omaha.

The Lincoln-based brewery plans to open a tap room next spring in a spot between Film Streams and Slowdown, off 14th and Mike Fahey Streets.

“This puts us in a fun location next to a lot of like-minded individuals,” said Zipline co-founder Marcus Powers.

Powers said the brewery plans to take over the spot where the Saddle Creek Shop used to be, 721 N. 14th St. That shop used only a tiny portion of the actual bay, which Powers said is around 2,400 square feet with 25-foot ceilings. The Saddle Creek Records warehouse and office, which used the rest of that space, will relocate to make room for the brewery.

Zipline has two locations in Lincoln: the brewing facility and tap room, which is in an industrial neighborhood at 2100 Magnum Circle, and a space designed as a German beer hall near 56th and Pine Lake that Powers said is in a residential neighborhood.

They plan to do something different in Omaha. The impetus for the move into the Slowdown complex came last summer, when Zipline was working with Hear Nebraska, a local music nonprofit, on an event called “Beer Nebraska” focused on local music and local beer. The idea to become part of the Slowdown neighborhood grew out of that event.