Some New Landlord This Way Comes

4-12-26:

LOGE put the building up for sale (as well as the cabins property by the river, package deal) and our local hospital (Cascade Medical…right next door) snapped it up immediately. Sale closed on the 9th. What’s that mean for us? We are still here through the end of our lease. 2 years for sure. Beyond that, after having a sit down to discuss changeover of owner items with the hospital, our future in the building seems highly unlikely. So we must now plan to look at the options for getting a second location up and running that we could eventually fully relocate to if we don’t get a lease renewal here.

Currently the hospital does not have a specific plan for the properties, though they have lots of brainstormed ideas. They’ve been looking for property to expand to for a while for parking, for housing travel nurses, for office space, for expanding patient care facilities….and when this one popped up next door, they jumped on it. Figure out the plan later! It’s poetic since the building was previously the hospital so it’s coming full circle. *Cue the Lion King music* They likely won’t do much with the space during the remainder of the brewery’s tenancy, aside from probably trying to auction off some of the items LOGE left behind. Unfortunately, the hospital is a public non-profit organization and there’s a lot of legal complications of what they can and cannot do and that means they can’t just let us have some of the highly desirable equipment and furniture that’s left behind. Bummer. And after they’ve had a couple years to plan what the property will be, it likely won’t or can’t involve the brewery remaining as a tenant. Our best guess is either a massive remodel, or more likely a demolish and new build as this building is nearly 100 years old and doesn’t seem like it’s structurally useful for a modern hospital facility. The hallways alone are far too narrow. Unless maybe it just becomes office space?

Brewery patrons have been having a field day with all the ways a brewery could benefit a hospital….expectant fathers, nursing mothers (Milk Stout?), grieving widows, nervous surgeons, anxious family members, staff breaktime….the savings on anesthesia alone by sending pre-op patients for a couple Barleywines or Imperial Stouts before their procedures? A few 12% beers and you won’t feel a thing!