b'C o m m u n i t yBuilding Sip Yard Port A, the Coastally to families with small kids and to a 21-and-up audience that prefers to leave the kiddos at home while they enjoy live music and cocktails.Bends Most Unique New Event Venue The layout scheme of Sip Yard is based around the main, center steel structure and Sip Yard Port A opened this year to large crowds eager to enjoy live Texas music,its reinforced concrete pillar that houses an elevator. Pilings were driven 16 feet underground, creating stability and strength that will survive any storm surgeor terrific food and family fun in an open-air setting that makes the most of the is- wind gusts that could come with a Cat-5 hurricaneand certainly any storm that lands beauty and cooling gulf breezes. When the Sip Yard partners conceived thehas hit Port A over the past two centuries. The two-level structure provides shade idea for the new, one-of-a-kind venue, their approach was to cut no corners andand cover for the main, floor-level bar area, as well as platforms for the 2nd-level spare little expense in constructing a facility that will permanently change thebar and the 3rd-level terrace and observation deck. Those top two levels operate landscape of Old Town Port Aransas and that would survive a direct hit by a stormas a 21+ sanctuary for adults, while most of the property, that being the floor level, on par with Hurricane Harvey, seven years ago. Beyond storm survivability, theis situated as a large, open courtyard with family seating areas as well as safe, open main challenge for Sip Yard was designing an establishment that was both friend- space where young kids can play and mingle freely, just steps from their parents.66THE COASTAL BEND MAGAZINE TheCoastalBend.com'