By early summer of 2014 the company had grown to more than 20 full time employees. They broke ground on Phase II of the Pine Street facility in an adjacent warehouse they had planned on leasing in a couple of years if they needed more space. In the midst of the 2014 scale up in production, Citizen Cider was underway building out an additional 9000 square foot production space complete with a full mechanical system and 13, 3200 gallon tanks to ferment and age hard cider.