The Hamm’s Brewery dates back to 1865, when Theodore Hamm took over the brewing operation near Swede Hollow, atop an artesian well. A promising project in the mid-2000s fell apart with the housing bust, but construction is now underway on 250 rental units, being marketed as the Schmidt Artists Lofts.
And city officials say a deal is brewing with the Flat Earth Brewery, now located in Highland Park, to expand into Hamm’s and start production by the end of the year.Īt Schmidt, which had a brief incarnation as the Landmark Brewery and then churned out ethanol for several years, the emphasis has been on housing. An “urban farm” operation, Urban Organics, is installing equipment to raise fish and grow lettuce indoors, using water from the old brewery well.
Finally, though, there’s now at least some action. After a huge infusion of cash to clean up the buildings and the site in the late 1990s, the business park has been home to a variety of businesses, including a hospital linen laundry and a new trapeze school.īut the southern set of Hamm’s buildings - including the bigger, harder-to-reuse brew house and stock house - belong to the city and have long been vacant and an eyesore. “For years we wondered, how can we ever do anything with them? But now we’re finally finding some great new uses,” Coleman said in an interview.Īt Hamm’s (later Stroh’s) - on Minnehaha Avenue, just off Payne Avenue - private developer Howard Gelb has long owned the northern set of buildings.
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