Industrial Spaces used as Live/Work space

The Brewery Art Colony, Downtown’s vast live/work space for artists is a collection of 21 warehouses dating from 1903. Sited on 18 acres on Main Street near I-5 you can see the tall Brewery smokestack from the freeway. Purchased and renovated in 1980 by Carlson Industries, the lofts have rented to sculptors, tattoo artists, performance artists, potters, weavers, filmmakers and even taxidermists.
The Brewery once housed the old Eastside and Pabst Blue Ribbon breweries. Carlson Industries spent several years gutting the place, removing large tanks and pipes as it reshaped each building into workable spaces. Twenty-one former warehouses and even an old Edison power plant chimney dating to 1903.
Apparently, demand is so high the waiting list was simply dropped. Billed as the largest live-and-work artists' colony in the world, there are about 300 studios and 400 to 500 people living here. For rent only.