Pyramid Alehouse, a pre-game vacation spot for crowds of sports activities followers for greater than 30 years, is closing for good. A enterprise group fears extra might comply with.
SEATTLE — Pyramid Alehouse, a pre-game vacation spot for sports activities followers for greater than 30 years, is closing for good in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood.
“Our Alehouse enterprise has turn out to be more and more tough to function. The present setting will make it even more durable,” stated Wealthy Andrews, CEO of FIFCO USA, which owns Pyramid and a number of other different beer manufacturers.
Crowds of Mariners and Sounders FC followers, in addition to live performance and occasion audiences, have disappeared from the neighborhood’s sidewalks this spring due to the stay-at-home order. It’s not clear after they’ll return.
“It is actually unhappy to see an anchor enterprise that is been a mainstay of SoDo for years shut up,” stated Erin Goodman, government director of the SoDo Enterprise Enchancment Space, which incorporates the stadiums.
“I feel that is solely the primary of longtime favourite companies which can be going to shut their doorways for good,” she stated.
Restrictions on giant sporting occasions and concert events are the final to be lifted beneath a phased plan Gov. Jay Inslee unveiled on Friday. Section one, when some non-essential enterprise can reopen, begins Might 5. There’s no timeline for section 4, which might enable gatherings of 1000’s of individuals.
To prop up neighborhood bars, eating places, and outlets, the Sounders have given out greater than $200,000 of grants to close by staff and small companies.
The funds, some within the 1000’s of {dollars}, can be utilized on something from groceries to lease, and the Sounders say there’s extra money on the best way.
“We’re seeing some of us actually suppose exterior the field on how they’ll survive, however we all know that there is going to be extra, extra closures,” Goodman stated.
Pyramid’s house owners stated they’re providing severance to staff impacted by the closure. Pyramid beer will nonetheless be out there at retailers all through the area, the corporate stated.
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