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Rainier Cold Storage Stock House, RIP

Here's a report from Seattle:

There's a nice little piece over at Crosscut this morning about Georgetown's Rainier Cold Storage Stock House (and the demise of), but just like the neighborhood opposition to the building's demolition, it's too little too late. To be fair, the building's owners broke their way through many walls (a much beloved building that defines a neighborhood, an official Seattle Landmark) with the wrecking ball of public safety: it's going to collapse onto Airport Way, they said. Demolish away, they were told. Demolish away they did and not enough people knew or cared beforehand to do much of anything to stop it.

Seattlest researched and wrote an article on the landowner's plans to remove Georgetown's crown jewel late last year in the hopes that some public consciousness of the impending demo would save the building. Unfortunately, the resulting article sucked and never saw the light of day.

A hundred years ago when exploiting cheap labor was, if not a novelty at least not yet down to a science in America, and fortunes could be made by supplying that cheap labor with cheap beer, a monument was erected in the Georgetown neighborhood. A brewery for the ages. Not that cutesy Tully’s thing, the real one, farther south along Airport Way. Six blocks of brick magnificence, the great west wall stands tall. It used to represent America’s vast thirst for intoxication and capitalism’s will to slake it, but now it’s the bulwark that protects Georgetown from the developing hordes that constantly, insatiably, chew up Seattle’s old buildings in favor of crudely-designed office buildings and cheap condominiums.

Tears, Dust, Rubble, and the Future in Georgetown

Here's a report from Seattle:

We hope this isn't a growing trend. From the Croc to the Sunset Bowl to all of Seattle's bars, it seems as though any place of which beer is an integral component is endangered with stifling regulation or closure or even the wrecking ball. The very latest, of course, is a portion of the old Georgetown brewery just a scant few days after the 104th anniversary of Georgetownian incorporation.

Of course we're sad to see the Stock House go but you can't argue with an uncooperative foundation that's sinking below you. We're happy the rest of the complex is staying, though Sabey really needs to get on with fixing the place up --see the bricks above and focus before it's too late. Still, a lesson to all: perhaps cold storage is not the best adaptive reuse for a historic building.

Lift a glass: A Seattle landmark bites the dust

Cynthia Rose writes:

Jan. 19 was just an ordinary Puget Sound Saturday; the rainy drive to a specialty bookstore in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood, a latte fetched from right next door, and the strains of eclectic music in the air. Then, from across the road, an interruption that's becoming familiar: another demolition, spewing bricks and concrete into the street. The shock only lasts for seconds, because it's been elaborately previewed on a developer's Web site, in public meetings, and with extensive PR that hammered home familiar themes of renewal and preservation.

Which is surreal considering that the building being torn apart is an official Seattle landmark: the Rainier Cold Storage and Ice/Seattle Brewing and Malting Company. In 1893, as a merger of three earlier Seattle breweries, it would bring Rainier Beer to prominence and evolve into the sixth-largest brewing facility in the world. Now, mechanical claws are devouring the brewery's Stock House section — whose towering façade completes the south end of the 855-foot-long building. Developer Sabey Corp. — a growing presence in the Georgetown area — bought the landmark in October 2006. On its Web site, the company says that after the purchase they learned that the Stock House portion of the complex had a seriously compromised structural integrity. Several aspects of its history as a cold storage and "ice house" facility had led, they say, to degradation that required immediate demolition.

The idea that a developer would make such a purchase without first investigating its full structural state would seem unlikely. But according to the blog written mostly by Sabey Senior Vice President of Investments Jim Harmon (who was on site Saturday in a state of elation that contrasted strongly with that of most onlookers), "we certainly didn't buy the property with this in mind."