Commercial Building for Sale in Rodney Bay, St. Lucia

Newly Built Plantation Great House with in-House Brewery

Extensive, newly built commercial property consisting two restaurants, beer garden and in-house brewery located in the heart of Rodney Bay, St. Lucia most popular area.

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Wise investors and opportunists should certainly get captivated to buy surely one of the most fantastic package deals ever offered in the booming business locale of Rodney Bay, St. Lucia, Caribbean. Certainly, one of the selling points for Rodney Bay is its unyielding potential for expansion and commercial development. Rodney Bay continues on to cater to the ever increasing flow of local and tourist day and night activities.
Situated in this successful economic hub, is a genuinely unique and gorgeous establishment known as the Plantation Brewing House. This one of a kind property is a shining star amongst the other surrounding establishments. Reasonably recently constructed (2008), the Plantation Brewing House is situated in an easily accessible and very well frequented part of Rodney Bay, just a few steps from the new BayWalk Mall & Casino. The appeal and potential success of the Plantation Brewing House does not lie with just the excellent location and proximity of the property, but also with its generally impressive construction and design.
This two and a half storey building boasts a simply beautiful Caribbean style design, with a spacious verandah, aesthetic Caribbean style shutters and reinforced concrete and rubble stone wall frame
finishing. The timber framed roof with red cedar wood shingles also strengthens the tropical character of the building. At a glance, it is more than obvious that the Plantation Brewing House is a blue diamond among other establishments.
Walking along the hardwood timber floors which form the spacious verandah one would notice that the Plantation Brewing House is intentionally set for multitude of services. It functions as a fine dining restaurant/ sports bar & social pub / in-house brewery.
The Plantation Brewing House comes equipped with its own brewery (purchase optional – price US$ 190,000), which produces four beer labels of the world-class quality: J’Ouvert Gold Pilsner, J’Ouvert Dark Dunkel, J’Ouvert Amber Ale and J’Ouvert Black Porter. The brewing room is reasonably large and equipped with top-class brewing, fermenting and lagering equipment. This Austria-made beer setup has been designed for production of 50,000 liters’ of fine beer per year, but can easily be expanded, or work in shifts to make double volume. Fortunately, for those investors not familiar with the production of beer, an experienced brewmaster would be available to assist in any way possible. This is just one of the great benefits to obtain through this opportunity.
However, presence of the Brewery is only a side attraction compared to the impressive bar and dining area of the restaurant. Stepping into the restaurant, one is taken aback by the outstanding quality and ambiance of the interior décor. Certainly a contrast from the norm, the Plantation Brewing House sports beautiful Brazilian hardwood floors, high timber ceilings with multiple fans suspended above the lovely furniture. The exceptional Indonesian imported dinning furniture is spread across a marvelously spacious dinning floor. To pull this positively warm and socially enticing atmosphere together, a beautiful mahogany bar counter sits prestigiously, while the lovely bar stools beckons customers to sample one of the four flavors of J’Ouvert beer offered via the beer taps installed.
The verandah also benefits from the fine mahogany dinning furniture and acts as an extension of the restaurant. Collectively, the dining area and verandah can easily seat 150 guests. Considering the lovely location and décor, multiple dinner functions can be held at this locale. Wedding receptions, business brunches are only examples of the possibilities that can maximize the profits gained from owning this amazing property.
In order to supply its customers with such fine cuisines, the Plantation Brewing House contains a massive, fully equipped kitchen which includes state of the art quality kitchen appliances. All of the equipment is stainless steel in build. The kitchen also boasts three large refrigerators. With such heavy duty equipment and multiple quality appliances, the kitchen still remains uncluttered, and is open for free mobility.
As a stand-alone restaurant, the Plantation Brewing House already surpasses all the basics in class, style, and atmosphere. The package deal does not end here as there is also a leisure-type sports bar conjoined with the restaurant. Even with this setup, the sports bar/ beer pub functions independently from the restaurant. This sports bar surly shines above most bars due to its fantastic design and atmosphere. From the quirky one-liner posters, to the three large plasma screens surrounding the very large, locally made mahogany bar counter; this area is set to be a social hot spot. Patrons can enjoy an engaging game of pool on one of the pool tables provided on the verandah. The fanatic cheers of sports fans watching the games on TV sets urges them on to buy another round of beer. To enable its maximum freshness, system is connected directly from the brewery storing tanks, leading beer thru floor-located insulated pipes, directly to the drafting towers.
Sophisticated Point of Sale computer system connecting all restaurant, pub, kitchen and showing results on the server upstairs in the office is installed to maintain and ensure efficient sales / supply management.
If patrons intend to stretch their legs a bit, just past the bar through a doorway, a surprisingly large outdoor dining / beer garden area is available. This clay brick-tiled area is so large, that one may even consider transforming it into a parking lot, or open-air music hall. Area is well protected and walled, totally secluded from the public eye, so even the more reclusive persons can shy away from the action. The second set of restrooms can be accessed through this area as well.
There is a stair case along the back of the building which lead you to the upper level. A fully furnished office is found there, along with two AC units. One can also find two 800 gallon water tanks on the roof, and a solar heater unit as well. Along the side of the building is the staff entrance, lockers and gas tank. On the lower level, there is amazing storage capacity, as under the length of the building is utilized as a efficient basement area.
Another storage room is located by one of two delivery entrance gates and is ready for installing beer bottling equipment. Should the owner decide to make additional modest investment (about US$ 10,000), beer bottling process can be started. With this feature sale of the beer can be expanded even to local supermarkets, same as selected export markets [in CARICOM countries generally is very high import duty for beer manufactured outside Caricom, however no duty for beer produced within Caricom member states !].
The Plantation Brewing House does so many things correctly; it forms a perfect reserved and social blend. The symbiosis of restaurant dining and social gathering is wonderfully simulated in a Caribbean style setting. It is rare to find everything you need in one place. Location, reliable construction, sturdy equipment and a lucrative turn-key business that is ready to take off as soon as this blue diamond of Rodney Bay is acquired. The Plantation Brewing House is poised to work effectively and successfully for any skilled buyer who is savvy enough to realize this multifaceted properties’ earning potential.