‘On the bench’ | Platypus Brewing to close in preparation for owners’ new project
Staffing challenges, increased rent, health insurance costs, and cost of goods is also creating uncertainty, according to the Greater Houston LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce.
A popular Houston Heights brewery with an Australian flavor will be closing soon. Platypus Brewing announced in April they will be closing at the end of the month, but Platypus will be back next.
Platypus going 'on the bench'
Founder Sean Hanrahan says after an amazing nine years, and the lease up May 31 at Silver St. near Washington Ave. Hanrahan asked his partners: “is this the right exit point for the business?”
What the business community is seeing
At 19th St. in the heart of the Heights, others are celebrating career moves. Christyna Lewis, a financial advisor, says she is seeing those impacts firsthand with her clients.
She is celebrating an open house after moving into one of the spaces.
“Increased gas prices...the on again, off again tariffs and all of the changes that are coming down in how we’re supposed to do things,” Lewis said.
Staffing challenges, increased rent, health insurance costs, and cost of goods is also creating uncertainty, according to the Greater Houston LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce.
“We’re trying to connect our businesses with resources, grants that are coming out from different non-profits, different organizations...so we’re partnering with them and trying to ultimately get them access to resources,” Tammi Wallace, co-founder, president and CEO of the chamber, said.