Yes, The Ash Street Saloon Is For Sale...

The Facebook and Twitter dial's been lighting up on the Ash Street Saloon, the down-and-dirty metal and punk dive that's been kicking out jams in Portland for over 20 years. 

Yes, the Ash Street Saloon is for sale. No, the Craigslist ad is not a fake. If you want to buy the business—not the building—for $150,000, you should call Joe Shore at (503) 830-0904 and leave a message. (We did so. We didn't get a call back yet.)

Heather du Lac, longtime sound person and booker at the venue, confirmed the ad, but says the bar's been for sale for two years now. "The ad has always been running," wrote du Lac. "Ash St. has been for sale for years. The viralness of today probably has to do with the onset of social media."

Also publicly listed as being for lease in the same neighborhood?

Alexis, the Greek-restaurant mainstay of Old Town, is willing to lease out their current restaurant space at 215 W Burnside, for between $35,000 and $131,250 a year. It's been on the market for months. The Bakouros family own the building that houses their historic, three-story restaurant, but the restaurant has lately been vocal about their many nightly sidewalk neighbors.

Meanwhile, across the river, the building that houses Blackwater, brand-new vegan house of punk and metal, is also listed as being for sale. (The building is being advertised as "fully leased," i.e. with current tenants attached.) The same is true of Denali Building in Sellwood, home to the Pied Piper Play Cafe as tenants.

What appears to be Fuel Bistro and Coffee Bar is also listed as for sale on Alberta.

Most often, however, restaurants and bars for sale are listed blindly—which is to say, they are advertised only vaguely and shown only to seriously interested parties, so as not to detract from business in the meantime. It can be a maddening guessing game, but this practice also stops people from alarmedly posting your for-sale ad to Reddit.

WWeek 2015