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12/11/07 - My Goodness My Heidelberg!

posted Dec 11, 2007
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12/11 - The wrecker's ball coming to Heidelberg Brewery, The Biz Buzz

12/7 - Heidelberg Brewery Demolition Looming, KFnet in T-Town

12/7 - Demolishing the Columbia Brewing (Heidelberg) Building?, Exit133 Forums

6/29/2006 - Hotel and retail development planned for Brewery District, Tacoma News Tribune

Comments [25]


by NineInchNachos
on 12/11/2007 @ 11:36am		see also morgan's exit133 forum post about brewery loss

by NineInchNachos
on 12/11/2007 @ 11:40am		also: the bizz buzz weighs in on the status of HeidelBerg

by KevinFreitas
on 12/11/2007 @ 12:21pm		Thanks! I'll add those two to the link list with the Tacomic.

by Erik
on 12/11/2007 @ 3:16pm		From the TNT:

Heidelberg Brewery set to be demolished

A block near the University of Washington Tacoma campus that has been a brewery site for more than a century may soon get a more contemporary use.

The owners of the old Heidelberg Brewery at 2102 S. C St., have applied for a demolition permit for the building complex.

The owners are expected to reveal their plans for the site at a Landmarks Preservation Committee meeting at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Tacoma Municipal Building.

Previously, the owners have talked of building a hotel and perhaps some retail spaces on the site.

by Keeper
on 12/11/2007 @ 8:53pm		I say good riddance. I'm tired of driving around Tacoma and seeing old, vacant buildings. And just because it's old, doesn't mean it's a landmark. It could just be old and ugly.

Hopefully the new building will have some interesting architecture.

by Erik
on 12/11/2007 @ 9:09pm		The owners of the old Heidelberg Brewery at 2102 S. C St., have applied for a demolition permit for the building complex.

I am pretty biased toward keeping historical buildings. However, this one does not seem to have easy reuse.

Nothing even close to what the UWT buildings were. They would have to place alot of holes for windows in it. Also, I do not know if there is any great work ever done on it.

So long Heidelberg Brewery.......

by NineInchNachos
on 12/11/2007 @ 11:10pm		yep that's how I felt drawing this one. So long Heidelberg... see you chopped up at the ReStore.

by NineInchNachos
on 12/11/2007 @ 11:36pm		boy I bet there is some nifty building materials / mechanical items one could salvage from this place.

by KevinFreitas
on 12/12/2007 @ 7:49am		I'm totally with jenyum that they should save the water tower portion since, really, that's the most recognizable part of the whole thing. Could look pretty stellar atop a nice new (likely brick covered) building. What say ye, developers?

by NineInchNachos
on 12/13/2007 @ 11:59am		new on exit133 concept drawings!!!

www.exit133.com/2537/heidelberg-drawings...

by NineInchNachos
on 12/13/2007 @ 12:03pm		new on Tacoma Daily Index Heidelberg Article!

by NineInchNachos
on 12/13/2007 @ 1:06pm		holiday inn in Tacoma

this design sucks so hard it will make your eyeballs shoot out your ears as your head implodes like the house on that poltergeist movie.

by Erik
on 12/13/2007 @ 1:12pm		I am not going to advocate for an orange stucco box on a suburban lot. However, the proposed use as a hotel rules. Otherwise, the whole area is at risk of being a self storage facility. This isn't a steam plant, it just needs some tweeking.

by KevinFreitas
on 12/13/2007 @ 1:15pm		Looks OK but I was hoping for more opportunity for retail. I also don't see the water tower in there anywhere.

by Angela
on 12/13/2007 @ 3:18pm		Thanks for bringing up keeping the water tower, Kevin. I would love to see that re-used! That, and the lettering, is really the landmark portion of the location.

I hate the idea of that hotel and requisite parking lot; the developers are right about the "threatening" area keeping visitors away - throwing in a cookie-cutter Holiday Inn isn't going to change that. I don't want the dreaded storage units Erik mentions but would rather see something that incorporates the history, blends into the area and actually improves the neighborhood.

by NineInchNachos
on 12/14/2007 @ 12:39pm		Mr. Hanberg put together this little sonnet I feel is "On Message" with the feeling I was aiming to capture in my cartoon. Enjoy!

by NineInchNachos
on 1/14/2011 @ 9:02pm		starting to rub off on these people!

TNT Commenter - delfinajones 14 hours ago
It's the Tacoma Way-demolish now and whine about supporting historic preservation after wards. Have the old school historic preservation people in this town accomplished anything in the last 10 years beyond coming out with sad statements after the fact? Of course we do have the younger set now--the chalk wielding artistic wannabes/self promoters who want to close down museums because their pet doodle dreams about a straight skip and a hop the Glass Museum sans gate haven't come true. Does this town actually support culture or just self aggrandizing whining?


Read more: www.thenewstribune.com/2011/01/14/150175...

by NineInchNachos
on 1/14/2011 @ 9:07pm		www.exit133.com/6122/heidelberg-brewery-...








by fredo
on 1/14/2011 @ 10:51pm		Lots of the really cool stuff was sold for scrap when the brewery was auctioned off in the 1980s. I recall quite a few enormous copper topped brewing vats. They sold incredibly cheap. Large quantities of brass railings and fancy filligreed stairways went cheap. One pile of scrap metal in a storage room had a huge Heidelberg sign made out of brass. The bidding on that lot went pretty high but it ultimately went to a scrap dealer. There was some really nice carved stone around the entry way that wasn't offered at the auction (see posting above), but I think RR said it has since been stripped away, wish I could have got that. I bought a few items at the Heidelberg auction. One item was the Carling Brewing Co. sign which was mounted on the SE corner of the building. I also purchased a scale model of a portion of the brewery. Sad to see the place go.

by NineInchNachos
on 1/15/2011 @ 8:18am		UW Tacoma is tracking down the stonework made locally by the brew masters's brother in law. They feel bad about erasing the student prince mural and want to make it up to us.

by fredo
on 1/15/2011 @ 8:52am		that stonework was a pretty big piece of rock. i studied it for quite awhile to get an idea what would be involved in salvaging it. at the very least one would need a flatbed truck and a beefy scissorlift. doubt it this could disappear in the middle of the night without anyone being aware of it but maybe during the daylight hours no one would notice. this is the cool stuff that should be in the museum, also the big water tank and the channellume signage off the top of the building.

by jenyum
on 1/15/2011 @ 11:00am		Somebody sold their collection of Tacoma Beer Anti Katzenjammer paraphernalia in October 09, (Tacoma Beer was a Pacific Brewing Company product) wish the city still had any existing imagery from this product, it's hilarious.

live.vcaauction.com/Tacoma-Beer-Anti-Kat...

by NineInchNachos
on 1/15/2011 @ 11:02am		Fredo, You should do some urban exploring while you still can.

by fredo
on 1/15/2011 @ 11:23am		I'm going to see if William Dickson can get me in there.

jen-that's a sweet image, thanks for the link

by Dave_L
on 1/16/2011 @ 7:22pm		Yes - Hah, I know of the Katzenjammer Kids, but the Wikipedia definition of Katzenjammer is, "...a German word literally meaning "cat's wail" and hence "discordant sound", sometimes used to indicate a general state of depression or bewilderment or in reference to a hangover."
Gosh, it doesn't seem that long ago that the carved-stone was still in-place.
fredo, back in the 80's-90's I purchased a cool student prince table-lamp at an antique-lighting place up in Seattle. Maybe it came right from that 80's auction you mention. The Olympia brewery had auctions up until recently that let go some nice, old stuff.
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