Spokane brewery to open Garden City location near Greenbelt — with Airbnb units on top

If you crush one too many pints at a new brewery coming to Garden City, fear not.

Plan ahead, and you can just spend the night right above it. Or the week.

Brick West Brewing Co. of Spokane, Washington, plans to open in a mixed-use building on a corner lot at 202 E. 34th St. — 34th and Clay streets. The taproom will take up about two-thirds of the ground floor, co-owner Matt Goodwin said, with an office space filling the remainder. Four “large, executive-type Airbnb suites” will inhabit the second story of the building, which is roughly 4,000 square feet, he said.

Target opening date? Summer 2022. “It’s just a piece of dirt right now,” Goodwin said. “We won’t start construction until July at the soonest.”

That gives Garden City residents plenty of time to work up a thirst. With close proximity to the Greenbelt and Boise River, Brick West is poised to become a significant beer-drinking attraction in the developing neighborhood.

“It’ll have a really large patio,” Goodwin said. “Really conducive to walk-up traffic, biker traffic.

“The commercial space will be very indoor/outdoors,” he added. “Lots of garage doors, lots of open air.”

Brick West Brewing is a relative newcomer to the Northwest beer scene. The 15-barrel brewery opened in January 2020 in downtown Spokane. Its food menu features gourmet hot dogs, plus wraps and tacos.

Brick West in Garden City might include a small kitchen that would offer a limited menu, Goodwin said. But that hasn’t been finalized. If the kitchen idea is discarded, Brick West will take the food-truck route, he said.

Brick West’s tentative plan is to brew beer in Garden City, but it would be a smaller operation than in Spokane, Goodwin said.

“Our initial thoughts are it’s going to have a smaller brewhouse in it,” he said. “So we can make some specific Boise beers, and some specific beers on site. But we will be bringing down beer from the Spokane facility as well.”

The office space will be filled by a branch of Spokane-based 4 Degrees Real Estate, which is co-owned by Goodwin’s business partner, Jordan Tampien. Goodwin and Tampien are the majority owners of Brick West.

The two men also recently purchased the former Dutch Goose bar property on State Street in Boise. One of their other Spokane food-and-drink concepts, The Backyard Public House, is slated to open there this spring.

This story was originally published March 10, 2021 at 4:00 AM.