Eastern Cincinnati’s Dead Low Brewing has closed amid the coronavirus pandemic, but has since found a way to utilize their resources and space to help support the community during these challenging times.
The restaurant has coordinated a project to connect displaced frontline health care workers with local RV owners, so that they can park the RVs in the brewery lot and give health care workers a safe place to stay.
“We believe the health and safety of our crew and fans infinitely outweigh the benefits of remaining fully operational at this critical time,” Dead Low co-founder Paul Ganim explains in a press release. “What we are left with is a gigantic empty space a few hundred yards from the I-275/I-471 corridor. We may not be able to use our land right now, but we know there are displaced health care workers who can.”
Many frontline health care workers have had to find alternative housing situations in order to isolate and keep their families, their patients and themselves safe during the rise of COVID-19.
Through the brewery’s “match” program, RV owners can temporarily donate their RVs and park them in the Dead Low Brewing lot and the brewery will connect the donated RVs with a health care worker in need. They are working with Duke Energy to provide higher voltage power, but for now they have regular 110V electric available for basic power needs and potable water. RV owners have also donated black/grey water pumping for sanitation.
If you have an RV to donate to the cause, or are a health care worker looking for a safe space, reach out to hello@deadlow.com.
Dead Low Brewing, 5959 Kellogg Ave., California.
This article appears in Mar 18 – Apr 14, 2020.