Apparently running a craft distillery and making craft beer is not enough for Lagunitas and founder Tony Magee. he has been throwing his sister out there to push the idea of a Lagunitas and having a small concert revenue to somehow distinguish it from other craft distillery's. Karen Hamilton wants Chicago to have its own amphitheater similar to the one that can be found in Petaluma, California and Karen hopes to have Lagunitas somehow connected to music more than this company needs. A craft beer company needs to keep it simple and concentrate on making good brew and not find it necessary to somehow have more access to revenues with an avenue and music venue. This is all pay to play development ties that Lagunitas is wishing to develop and have an excuse to expand its facilities so they can expand their property holdings and so forth in and around 17th street in Chicago which is one of the cities last industrial areas.
a Karen Hamilton and Lagunitas though wish to see their property values skyrocket and somehow find another area in Chicago to become an entertainment center. Some local politicians see this push as for what it is as another attempt of a drive to push out Pilsen's Puerto Ricans under guise of economic development and get these PRs into boring places like Elgin, Joliet, and aurora and make Chicago more White, hipster, and gentrified for investor money .Alex Esparaza says Lagunitias could try to encourage other companies to try to get a toe hold into this manufacturing district. Karen says the craft company hopes to make a rooftop bar in addition to the music venue that could hold about a
thousand people and have opportunities for more profit for Lagunitas to hold 15 concerts a year--which is just the initial plans as this number would surely go up. Karen Hamilton and Lagunitas is asking the city to carve out a different zoning area for more access to concerts and events. I say the city of Chicago should tell them to not be cheap and just buy or lease areas in Bucktown or Wicker park. Screw that shit. lagunitas does a good job at brewing beer at numbers of over 400,000 barrels a year and they need to stick to this game plan and not worry about being an outlet for Hootie and the Blowfish and other old loser acts to have small avenues to reach out realistically to their dwindling fan base. By the way lagunitas is owned fifty percent by Heineken so they are really not an independent and unique beer company anymore but just part of a global conglomerate that uses its power to cause drastic change and crony political play around the world.
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