Found a building and negotiating for a lease!

After looking at a few possible locations that all turned out to be way to small or had insufficient parking (read: two spots total), I moved onto the last building on my list: 41537 Cherry Street in Murrieta. The unit is 4500 square feet, has two roll-up doors, very high ceilings, and used to be an Automotive Electrical Shop. This is perfect because the have hundreds of electrical outlets, including quite a few 220V outlets will be precisely what we need for brewing with electric.

At 4500 sqft, parked with 2 parking spots every 1000 square feet, we would have around 9 spots. The amount of parking spots we are allotted directly correlates to the size of our tasting room as per the city's conditional use permit (CUP). What this means to us is, the more parking, the larger our tasting room can be!

Temecula is similar, but rather allow a percentage of the buildings square foot, something like 10 or 15%, to dictate the size of the tasting room. This is why Wiens has a huge tasting room, and Aftershock and Iron Fire have smaller tasting rooms--it all boils down to a formula. For now, though, Murrieta is a little more flexible in that they look at every possible factor, including things like peak hours and location.

We are quite found of this Cherry Street location. Cherry street is the last street on Jefferson before you leave Murrieta and enter Temecula. This means we would be easily accessible to both city's. And best of all, we will have direct freeway access once the Date Freeway ramp is done in a few months. Directions will go like this: take the 15 freeway to the Date exit, go across Jefferson and turn right into the second driveway (The first driveway is the Off-road warehouse). Easy as that. Downside is we are in the building in the back, but that's nothing a few signs wont direct you to.

We put in an offer and are asking for a few concessions. If the owner is quick to respond, and if all goes well, we will be in this unit in the next couple of weeks. Cross your fingers!

A few pics: