Waitsburg City Hall is back on the market

WAITSBURG—At a special meeting on June 13, the Waitsburg City Council voted to accept Patraic Slattery’s offer for the former city hall building. The offer included a project description: an organic wine bar on the ground floor and eight hotel rooms upstairs.

Slattery is completing his remodel and rebranding of the former Weinhard Hotel, which will reopen as the Hotel Hardware this summer. His plans for the city hall building were similar to the Dayton project

On Thursday, Council member Jillian Henze announced the agreement on her public page. The Waitsburg – In the Know page reposted Henze’s original post, eliciting over 50 comments. Some of the posts, from Dayton and Waitsburg residents, were critical of or questioned the sale. However, after Slattery posted his withdrawal from the sale as a comment in the thread, the posts overwhelmingly supported his offer.

According to Waitsburg City Administrator Randy Hinchliffe, the deal is done and not moving forward.

This is the third offer accepted by the city council and later withdrawn. The city vacated the building in August 2021, when city hall was moved to 106 Main Street.