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\u201cI\u2019m really excited to have these pubs and taprooms,\u201d said Ben Shantz, board chair of the South Osborne Business Improvement Zone.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope that having multiples \u2014 three of them \u2014 will actually create a good deal of synergy in the area, where people can hop from one to another.\u201d<\/p>\n
The BIZ runs local restaurant tours. It hasn\u2019t talked about an organized pub crawl, but that would be a \u201cnatural expansion,\u201d Shantz said.<\/p>\n
The breweries say they independently decided to open.<\/p>\n
Nonsuch Brewing was approved for up to three liquor sales locations, leading to its expansion beyond the Exchange District, co-founder Matthew Sabourin said.<\/p>\n
It opened its 551 Osborne St. store mid-July. The shop \u2014 which sells beer and seltzers \u2014 will move from the main floor to the basement once construction finishes. The ground level will become a tasting room and snack bar, likely sometime this winter, Sabourin said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really excited to have these pubs and taprooms.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone had written in an article (that) South Osborne was a beer desert \u2026 that was the right way of saying it,\u201d Sabourin said. \u201cI sought to try and correct that.<\/p>\n
\u201cA number of us thought the same thing, and I think that just shows the potential of the neighbourhood.\u201d<\/p>\n
Construction on the former tax service centre has been a \u201cbrutal long haul \u2014 but we\u2019re getting there,\u201d Sabourin said.<\/p>\n
Nonsuch has had the 960-square-foot space since February 2025, he added.<\/p>\n
He cited unexpected costs, permits and design work as slowing progress. Tariffs on steel and aluminum, among other levies, took effect during the time period.<\/p>\n
Dastardly Villain has also pushed its opening date.<\/p>\n
Owner Scott Tackaberry is building a nanobrewery and steampunk-themed taproom inside 726 Osborne St., where he formerly ran Grape & Grain, a home-brewing supply store.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Dastardly Villain Ale owner Scott Tackaberry says the brewery will open in the spring.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Renovations on the 100-year-old building began around two years ago. Permits and bringing the building up to code \u2014 drywalling, replacing furnaces \u2014 has stretched the timeline, Tackaberry said.<\/p>\n Dastardly Villain might open in the spring, he added. He\u2019s planning murals, sculptures and pictures of villains for the 100-seat taproom. An outdoor patio seating another 100 is planned.<\/p>\n For now, Dastardly Villain keeps making its five core beers at Torque Brewing and its seasonal beers, typically, at Oxus Brewing Co.<\/p>\n Good Neighbour opened its South Osborne takeout beer shop \u2014 at 683 Osborne St. \u2014 in May. An unfinished space behind a fridge wall could become a <\/a>bar<\/a>, potentially by 2027, its owners told the Free Press at the time.<\/p>\n Good Neighbour is converting a former upholstery store.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t RUTH BONNEVILLE \/ FREE PRESS FILES<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Good Neighbour Kayla Goossen helps out a customer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cSome people might look at it like, \u2018Oh no, you\u2019re getting competition,\u2019\u201d Tackaberry said. \u201cBut I know these people and they\u2019re good people, and it\u2019s a good industry.<\/p>\n \u201cI think \u2026 we will become a little tourist strip, like Osborne Village or Little Italy on Corydon.\u201d<\/p>\n He created Dastardly Villain \u2014 and shuttered Grape & Grain \u2014 in response to online sellers taking home-brewing retailers\u2019 business, he said. Dastardly Villain\u2019s beer hit shelves in 2021; Grape & Grain closed in early 2025.<\/p>\n The Osborne stretch hasn\u2019t had a taproom since Luxalune Gastropub shuttered in 2016, said Shantz, who\u2019s been general manager of GameKnight Games for 14 years.<\/p>\n \u201c(The business landscape) has been improving massively over the past decade,\u201d Shantz said. \u201cIt\u2019s had a bit of ups and downs, but generally speaking, it\u2019s been developing really nicely.\u201d<\/p>\n Black Market Provisions entered the area in 2019; it\u2019s now doubling its footprint. The specialty goods retailer is taking over its neighbour\u2019s 600-sq.-ft. space at 552 Osborne St.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Black Market Provisions is doubling its footprint.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A retirement led to a bookkeeping service\u2019s closure, said Alana Fiks, co-owner of Black Market Provisions.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need more square feet,\u201d Fiks said. \u201cIt\u2019ll allow us to give our kitchen some breathing room, and then also will allow us to expand our retail.\u201d<\/p>\n Staff have been cooking and baking in a 300-sq.-ft. commercial kitchen. The shop itself is another 300 sq. ft.<\/p>\n Post-expansion, Black Market Provisions will likely stock more kids\u2019 items and stationery. Employees will have a doubled kitchen area for labelling and packing, Fiks said.<\/p>\n Black Market aims to open before Christmas.<\/p>\n \u201cThese openings are very welcome because they\u2019re going against a troubling national \u2026 trend,\u201d said Robin Bezte, a Prairies senior policy analyst with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.<\/p>\n The CFIB has called Canada a place of \u201centrepreneurial drought.\u201d Rising operating costs, taxes, red tape and labour issues hamper businesses, Bezte added.<\/p>\n \n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t Black Market Provisions plans to trade a warehouse it uses for the storefront expansion, meaning the company is swapping space more than growing, in terms of square feet.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not really risk takers,\u201d Fiks said. \u201cWe definitely benefit from a very, very supportive neighbourhood and surrounding areas.\u201d<\/p>\n Lord Roberts housed 5,225 residents in 2021, up 5.2 per cent from 2016, census data show. Riverview, another South Osborne neighbourhood, saw a drop of 0.1 per cent (to 4,265 people) during the same timeframe.<\/p>\n gabrielle.piche@winnipegfreepress.com<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t Gabrielle Pich\u00e9 Gabrielle Pich\u00e9 reports on business for the Free Press. She interned at the Free Press and worked for its sister outlet, Canstar Community News, before entering the business beat in 2021. Read more about Gabrielle<\/a>.<\/p>\n Every piece of reporting Gabrielle produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print \u2014 part of the Free Press\u2018s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press\u2019s history and mandate<\/a>, and learn how our newsroom operates<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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