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When Anchor Steam Beer sold to Sapporo during the beer slump they were good enough to look after their landmark Potrero Hill brewery building to make sure it wasn't converted into yet more San Francisco yuppie hutches. https://www.brewbound.com/news/keith-greggor-explains-sold-a.... 'San Francisco’s commercial real estate has been on fire for years, and we have been in Potrero Hill since the late 1970s. The property is worth a lot of money. Their goal is to preserve Potrero Hill and enhance it. They think it is a jewel within the brewing industry. It was not an option for us to have someone buy the brewery, stick it in the desert and then turn the building into condos. That would have destroyed Anchor’s legacy.' The Japanese seem to take US heritage more seriously than the locals...



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