Appalachian Brewing Company

The Appalachian Brewing Company at 3721 Market St. in Hampden Township near Camp Hill will close on April 30. File photo, DAN GLEITER/The Patriot-News

UPDATE:

Appalachian Brewing Company's brewpub along Market Street in Hampden Township will serve its final beers on April 30.

The restaurant, which opened in 2006 at 3721 Market St. near Camp Hill, is closing. (Not to be confused with its brewpub at 6462 Carlisle Pike in Silver Spring Township.)

"That area, at least that location, has been in decline since 2008. It had never been what we thought it would be," said Artie Tafoya, director of operations for Appalachian Brewing.

As a result, Tafoya said Appalachian has decided not to renew the restaurant's lease as the partners focus on opening a brewpub in Hershey as well as next month's opening of a brewpub in Gettysburg.

"We gave it a great run. We are a well-run operation ... We could just never quite make it work there," Tafoya said.

He added all of the employees will continue to work for Appalachian's other restaurants. In addition, mug club memberships will be moved to the Harrisburg and Silver Spring Township brewpubs.

In the meantime, Tafoya said the new Gettysburg restaurant and brewery will open around May 10 at 259 Steinwehr Ave. The brewpub replaces its "Battlefield" location which closed in 2015 after the Civil War Trust in July 2014 announced it was purchasing the land.

Appalachian is also moving forward with plans to open in Derry Township. Two years ago, Appalachian announced plans to open in Hershey at the United States Postal Service's office project along West Chocolate Avenue.

Appalachian has secured a liquor license and is in the final stages of lease negotiations for that location, Tafoya said.

Next year will mark 20 years since Appalachian opened its brewpub in Harrisburg in 1997. It now operates more than half a dozen brewpubs including ones in Lititz and Collegeville.