The West End's glory days in Dallas have long since passed. Now, the touristy area is just a couple of sad-looking chain restaurants and the House of Blues. Most people in Dallas haven't even been to the West End since the 1990s, but you may soon have a delicious new reason to head to the Downtown-adjacent neighborhood after work: beer.

Craft breweries have been popping up in Dallas at a thrilling rate in the past few years, and a new West End brewery from former Four Corners brewmaster John Sims may be one of the most exciting announcements to come out of the West End in over a decade. As Robert Wilonsky reported at The Dallas Morning News yesterday, Sims and his business partners applied for a permit to open an "alcoholic beverage establishment" on the first floor of the building that once housed The Butcher Shop.

The City Planning Commission still has to approve the plans to renovate the old Cadillac Bar, and additional permits would be needed to open the actual brewery. According to Wilonsky, Sims hopes to revitalize the sagging West End area, which one Dallas Morning News commenter described as a "a bastion of degenerates, back-alley sexcapades and drug use," a depiction that actually makes the place sound more interesting than it really is.