Oskar Blues founder buys Longmont warehouse for $1.16M

LONGMONT — Red Clay LLC, an entity Oskar Blues founder Dale Katechis has used to buy real estate for a couple of the brewery’s restaurants and other operations, paid $1,162,500 recently for a warehouse at 142 S. Pratt St. in Longmont. But the intended use of the building remains unclear.

Neither Katechis nor an Oskar Blues spokesperson could be reached for comment Thursday.

Jason Kruse of Colorado Group represented Red Clay in the deal, while B. Scot Smith and Wade Arnold of Colorado Group represented the seller. Kruse said Thursday that he couldn’t comment on Katechis’ plans for the site.

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The 14,000-square-foot building sits on roughly an acre of land at the southeast corner of Pratt and Second Avenue. The seller was Double L Co. LLLP, an entity of former Longmont Times-Call editor and publisher Dean Lehman and his sister Lauren.

Smith said an undisclosed tenant is leasing the building currently for storage space, but that lease expires Aug. 31.