The Maple Leaf Brewery is not to be, at least, not now.
You remember the Maple Leaf Brewery? Buried now under several feet of snow posts, last week’s community discussion of the possible brewery generated 91 comments. So far.
Comment No. 91 is from the potential owners/brewers, Monica and Kevin:
Thanks, all, for your great feedback and support. After a lot of thought and hard number-crunching, we decided against leasing the warehouse space at 94th and Roosevelt. It was a difficult decision given the overwhelming positive commentary from the neighborhood, and given our dream of building Maple Leaf’s first brewery and community beer garden.
We are still very much interested in creating, or co-creating, the Maple Leaf Brewery and tasting room, and will be on the lookout for properties that make financial sense for this, as well as people who might be willing to partner with us to make this happen in some form.
That’s too bad. Honestly I think it would have struggled though. I think the brewpub plan with food and beer is much more likely to succeed. I often hit regional breweries beer pubs when traveling around the Northwest and there seems to be a pretty good formula for success there, both locally and regionally.
bummer! I was going to offer them our architecture/interior help on a friendly neighbor business. I hope they land somewhere sooN!