Barry Bialik

Barry Bialik is a serial entrepreneur and founder of the Thirsty Monk Pubs and Compact Cottages, which has now opened an Asheville-based PreFab House Factory. His years spent in Alaska, Seattle, and Austin fostered his love for creative class cities and good Northwest Style Pubs and Coffeehouses. Barry is a passionate proponent of Affordable Housing, and was raised in an affordable housing complex in Brooklyn, NY. He is Past Chair of the City of Asheville’s Affordable Housing Advisory Committee, and a builder/ developer who has built 200+ Asheville area homes and Accessory Dwelling Units. For the past few years, Barry has been tying together Beer and Affordable Housing with a series of “missing middle” subdivisions featuring streets named after Beer Hops and Styles such as Cascade Street, Porter Place, and Lager Lane. Barry has been in Asheville since 2005 and lives on a mountain in South Asheville with his wife and two kids.