A Beer-Brewery-Pub in the Dimond?
wouldn't it be nice

Tim Chapman put up an interesting post about historic breweries in the Dimond District on his blog. "Dimond's Beer Gardens" Very cool with historic photos and documents, as well as modern-day photos of these historic places. He posted this after reading a recent article in the Tribune about a brewery in Oakland trying to revive the beer history of our city. "Brewery set to rekindle Oakland's Heydey"

I learned last week that the Dimond Merchants' Association may be focusing their efforts on an emerging effort to revive an historic Dimond Tradition of an Oktoberfest Celebration at the Altenheim. Wouldn't that be great? The only thing that could be better would be for a brew-pub, family style wine bar sort of place to open in the neighborhood to build on the transformation already happening along the intersection of MacArthur and Fruitvale. Maybe in the old Blockbuster building?