What do you think should be done with the vacant Olympia brewery? Tell us in this survey
The Olympia Brewing Co. closed down in 2003 and was followed with years of potential replacement plans, construction and changing owners.
The old brewery is hard to miss, the large beige-colored building seen from Interstate 5 and Capitol Boulevard. In 2016 the building was purchased by Tumwater Development LLC, who considered turning it into a hotel, convention center, housing, retail use, brewery, community gathering spaces, according to previous reporting from The Olympian.
The property ownership only gets more complicated, as the brewery building is only a small part of the former brewery land. The land runs north of Custer Way into the Deschutes River basin and south along Capitol Boulevard to the southeast corner of Tumwater valley, where the city owns property, according to previous reporting from The Olympian.
Not only is the land divided between two owners, but nine groups total own 30 parts of the vacant brewery’s land.
The vacant land was vandalized in 2019. The vandals were reportedly trying to take copper wire from a transformer and damaged it. The transformer then leaked a petroleum-based product into the Deschutes River, according to a previous article from The Olympian. The vacant building earlier caught on fire in 2018.
Today the building still remains vacant.
So what would you like to see the land turned into?
A convention center, library, hotels or community gathering place? Or something else? Let us know in the survey below. The survey will remain open for one week, and then we will publish your responses.
This story was originally published July 13, 2022 at 5:00 AM.
