In March, the head of Miller's Milwaukee-based disposition team Bob Hope told GlobeSt.com there are "a number of people interested in buying the whole thing" and his team is "in discussions with a few" of them. Hope was away on vacation this week and could not be reached for comment.

"Depending on how that goes, we will decide what kind of strategy we need to put together going forward," Hope said in March. If the property can't be sold as a single piece, which is Miller's preference, Hope said that he had already had "probably 100 phone calls from people interested in different parts of it."

The brewery opened in 1896 to produce Olympia beer. Pabst bought the facility in 1983 and Miller bought it in 1999. The multi-building facility is bordered by the Deschutes River, Capitol Lake and a golf course. As for redevelopment of the property, much of the 72 acres has always been undeveloped and will likely have to remain that way because the Deschutes River is a Salmon stream and there will be increased buffers to deal with, say local officials.