Belmont Station Beer Forum (via Metroblogging Portland) reports that The Rose & Raindrop will be gone come the end of the year.
An email on the Oregon Brew Crew mailing list says: “The landlord informed him that someone made an offer that’s roughly double what he’s paying. The landlord can’t tell him who’s taking the space, but he was told it won’t be a restaurant or bar anymore. Apparently it’s to be renovated/gutted and turned into something else.”
According to The Rose & Raindrop website, the bar “is housed in the Barbur Blocks Building, a registered historic building and one of the oldest standing commercial buildings in Portland. Built in 1890, the building was one of the first multi story brick buildings on the east side of the river and one of the nicest funeral parlors on the west coast.”
Addendum: Maybe they can go be a part of the Grand Central Market, although I’m not sure who gets ownership of the ghosts which allegedly haunt the bar’s current location.