Lorne brewery sold

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The Lorne Street brewery has been sold. According to Mallette-Goring Real Estate Brokerage, the building sold about three weeks ago. Photo by Marg Seregelyi.

The Lorne Street brewery has been sold. According to Mallette-Goring Real Estate Brokerage, the building sold about three weeks ago. Photo by Marg Seregelyi.

Aug 25, 2010- 9:34 AM

By: Stacey Lavallie - Sudbury Northern Life Staff

The brewing days of a Lorne Street landmark are over.

The building, vacant since Northern Breweries closed in 2006, has been sold to an unnamed buyer. According to Larry Gauthier, with Mallette-Goring Real Estate Brokerage, the building sold about three weeks ago.

He said the new owners do not intend to tear down the building, but couldn't say what the new use of the building would be, except "it's not going to be a brewery."

The brewery equipment is currently being removed from the building, he said.

"We've had (multiple) offers (for the building) over the last couple years, but this is the first one we've managed to put through," he noted.

The brewery closed a final time in 2006, a year and a half after Northern Breweries was purchased by an investment group in late 2004. It had been mothballed for several years before 2004-2006 attempt to revitalize the brand.

Bill Sharpe, the former head of Lakeport Brewing, was brought in as president and CEO for Northern Breweries.

The cost of upgrading the old breweries in Greater Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie, wages and poor sales left the company $7 million in debt, and the investment group was unable to find enough interested parties to keep the company afloat.

The company was also fined by the Ministry of the Environment in 2006 after it was unable to clean up an ammonia spill, caused when old piping burst in the building.
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8 Comments

  • Phillip Morris 8/27/2010 8:57:31 PM - Report Abuse

    The city should have pulled the back taxes again. Take ownership and offer to hold the title on a low-cost lease. Have the brewery operate as a co-op. Sell only 1-2 good brands. One ale. One lager. Have the local, fresh, draft version sold at a competitive rate.
    Bring back the Silver Foam name.

    Operate it just like one of the many successful micro breweries all over Ontario. Take what they did and copy the business formula.
    Sudburians would be proud of their own beer. Throw in a limited run Blueberry Festival beer. Chocolate Lager for Christmas. Spring wheat ale for Easter. Cranberry Fall/Thanksgiving ale.
    Too late folks. Another investment for the community, jobs, tourism, and profit is missed again.

  • The-Googles 8/26/2010 7:39:51 AM - Report Abuse

    I don't really have much of a comment on this one, but i gotta say to Linux_Advocat nice to see someone pulling for Tux!

  • Maggie_1 8/26/2010 6:29:11 AM - Report Abuse

    Love the humour in all the comments. Oh so true!!!
    Take a drive out to the Bell Mansion and see the mess of that place. It's all falling apart.....grounds are a mess....the city isn't taking care of it at all....disgusting. It's a beautiful building and in a few years that will be torn down as well. I'm surprised they haven't covered up the old stone walls (which is beautiful) to make it more up-to-date with the rest of the modern buildings we have in town. The entrance way to get in is so narrow and the nothing has been restored to keep the grounds and building looking presentable.

  • Palincha 8/25/2010 9:48:24 PM - Report Abuse

    I'd love to see those eye sore concrete silos demolished. How can anyone in their right minds want to preserve those for 'historical reasons'? They are the ugliest pieces of waste I can imagine. Get rid of them along with the water tower...

  • Northern Guy 8/25/2010 8:05:44 PM - Report Abuse

    I'm surprised that no one is crusading to have this preserved as a 'historic site', along with the concrete silos and the rusty waster tower.

  • Seamus 8/25/2010 5:04:13 PM - Report Abuse

    Linux_Advocat
    Love your sense of humour!

    Then again if council approved the construction of a new subway system under the tracks instead of the Budd car shuttle ...

  • Linux_Advocat 8/25/2010 4:19:14 PM - Report Abuse

    Rumour has it...that it will be converted to indoor tiered parking for Laurentian Hosp staff with an added Budd car as a shuttle to Howey Drive. The Cortina Boat will then ferry staff to Science North where they can simply cross Ramsey Lake Rd. Absolutely ingenious if it's true!

  • cybury 8/25/2010 2:40:43 PM - Report Abuse

    I wonder if they will do what was done to the old molsons brewery in barrie and grow pot in the vats. Now thats sure to be a profitable business with the market in sudbury lol.
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