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100 years with the opening of a new distillery. As tom sherwood reports, green hat gin is part of the movement to redevelop part of the citys old warehouse district. Reporter thousands of commuters pass by the old hex Department Store warehouse on new york avenue northeast, an Industrial Area transforming into new retail or residential housing. And just off of new york on little finrick street is a boozy neighbor, new columbia distilleries, makers of green hat gin. It is not a hobby. You know, you have to get a federal license to do distilling. Its not like homebrewed. Reporter amid oldschool vinyl lps played on a turntable and uptotheminute digital recordkeeping, theyre making a couple thousand cases of gin and business is booming. Mayor vincent gray held a meeting at greenhat, promoting local businesses as it shrinks. Its yet another example of the city becoming more sel ....