Sabey believes that the neighborhood of Georgetown is ripe for a renaissance and their acquisition of the property may also facilitate growth in the area. Under the new development plan, many of the current tenants will be invited to stay, including Georgetown Brewing Co., a small craft brewery that has been in the old building since September 2002. The “R” was donated to Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry, where it remains today. Many saw the switch as a change in Seattle’s beverage priorities. It was finally removed on Jand replaced with a green “T” about the same size for Tully’s Coffee, who had moved their headquarters to the building. The Tumwater plant closed in 2003 but Pabst continues to own and produce the Rainier label and last year even started an ad campaign playing upon the nostalgia for “Vitamin R” called Remember Rainier. They got out of the beer business three years later and brewing of “the Green Death” was moved down the road to Olympia Brewery in Tumwater after Pabst bought the brand name. Heilmann in 1977 and then it slipped in and out of other hands until 1996, when Stroh’s acquired it. After being very popular for several decades, the brand was sold to G. Initially, it rotated but after Interstate 5 was built it remained stationary for fear it would distract motorists. A few years later they installed the 12-foot neon “R” that became a Seattle landmark (which it was officially declared in 1993). After prohibition, Fritz and Emil Sick bought first the brewery (in 1933) and then the Rainier Brand (in 1935). Ten years later it would be the sixth largest brewery nationwide and the west coast’s biggest. Rainier celebrated their 100-year anniversary in 1978, though the brand was not created until May of 1893, when the newly merged company needed a new brand name for their beer. Kopp & Hemrich) and the Albert Braun Brewing Association merged together in 1892 to form the Seattle Brewing & Malting Co. Three local breweries, Claussen-Sweeney Brewing, the Bay View Brewery (a.k.a.
and Georgetown was originally created as a company town, though annexed by Seattle in 1910. The Rainier Brewery was built in 1903 by the Seattle Brewing & Malting Co. For $9.9 million, they got 5.5 acres, which includes “310,000 square feet in four former brewery buildings: the Brew House, the Malt House, the Bottling Plant and the General Office.” It was announced today that a local Seattle developer, the Sabey Corporation, has bought the historic Rainier Brewery along Interstate 5 and plans to develop the space into a multi-use area for shopping, business offices, living spaces and light industry.
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