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One possible location of Prison City Pub & Brewery's long-awaited expansion has been identified.

The Auburn brewpub's owners, Dawn and Marc Schulz, have applied to the city's Zoning Board of Appeals for a use variance at 4022 Technology Park Blvd., according to a legal notice posted by the city. The variance would allow for the production of beer and the operation of a tasting room at the site.

The board will hear the Schulzes' application at its next meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, at Memorial City Hall.

However, the Prison City owners are still looking at other locations for the brewery's new production facility, Dawn Schulz said in an email. If they decide on one of those prior to the meeting, she continued, they will pull their variance application for the Technology Park site. The decision will be made within the next few weeks, she added.

According to Cayuga County property , 4022 Technology Park Blvd. is owned by Florida-based interior design firm Lexi Interiors. The property is four acres and the building there is about 37,000 square feet. The property's 2018 assessment value was $996,000.

The Schulzes announced their plans to build a Prison City production facility in the summer of 2016. It will raise the brewpub's annual production from about 1,000 barrels to 10,000, and include canning and bottling lines, a tasting room and other amenities. The facility will also create between 22 and 25 full-time jobs.

The expansion is Prison City's response to the overwhelming demand for brewer Ben Maeso's beer, particularly India pale ales like the nationally acclaimed Mass Riot. Can and bottle releases at the State Street brewpub have drawn lines down the block, and supplies have sold out in minutes.

"We need the capacity," Marc Schulz said during the 2016 announcement. "We can't make any more beer here."

The Schulzes at one point planned to build the facility at 39 Genesee St., the former Nolan's Sporting Goods. The brewery would have been an anchor tenant of the city's Riverside Regional Public Market project. But the project, which would require the of a nearby segment of Loop Road, appears to be stalled. 

It was when the Schulzes were planning to build the facility at 39 Genesee St. that the expansion received $900,000 in state funding through the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council. Dawn Schulz said the money is not tied to that site, but Prison City has yet to decide whether to accept it and its conditions.