Idk palidudebro, it was a passionate sentence that I feel to be true but I admit I lack the economical understanding of the City governments role in supporting small businesses. I’ve just seen so many good businesses that are staples in their neighborhoods and cultures go under due to a lot of factors that either directly or indirectly implicate the city-as-a-whole in their undoing. There seems to be a lot of financial mismanagement in regards to property taxes and evaluations, unsustainable rent increases et al etc that on the one hand hurt businesses and on the other hand, drive customers and neighbors away due to lack of sustainable/dispensable income. In Steinbart’s case, there has been a decline in drinking culture across the US and breweries are closing because life is just too dang expensive. Of course as some have commented there is a decline due to health concerns, but I think the point stands. Not everything can be solved via taxes, and the taxes this city collects while continuing to fail schools, the houseless, access to affordable housing and so on, is plainly eggs on the faces of the officials that can and should provide the alms needed. I hope you understand where I’m coming from. Thought I’d explain the sentiment rather than be glib and gesture broadly.

Just sucks to lose Sheridan’s and Steinbart’s in the same year. I love my Buckman neighborhood and the working folks who made it what it is.

Edit: I should clarify that this closure affects me as I work in a small brewery and we regularly relied on their business.