Patrons of the Bier Stube will have about a month to say goodbye to the longtime campus-area dive bar.
Bier Stube, located at 1497 N. High St., announced on social media it’s last weekend will be Sept 21, as the bar must vacate the building by Oct. 1.
“I’m so sorry I couldn’t save the Stube,” Craig Kempton wrote on Monday.
The bar and several other buildings on the block of 9th and High Street are expected to be demolished to make way for a 13-story student apartment tower.
Chicago-based developer Harbor Bay Ventures submitted plans for the tower to the University Impact Design Review Board, or UIDRB, which approves zoning variances and designs for development in the area.
Renderings for the building show a dark-colored tower made of mass timber, a type of engineered wood product that combines smaller wood pieces to make large building components.
The Bier Stube’s Kempton wrote he expects to share more details about the bar’s closing in the coming days.
