The Bindery, a Bay View book-binding business, print shop, coworking and event space, announced this week on Facebook that it is closing. The business launched in 2018 and moved into its current space at 347 E. Ward St. in 2021.
On Saturday, July 19 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m., The Bindery will host “one big final liquidation sale,” according to the closure announcement. “Come say goodbye and buy our cool collection of vintage furniture, books, office items, remaining materials and store stock,” the announcement said. The sale will include discounts on notebooks, posters and paper goods, as well.
The Bindery was started by Zachary Lifton, who has a master’s in historic preservation. After he moved to Milwaukee in 2016 from Philadelphia, where he managed a co-working space, he bought the former Wisconsin Book Bindery building on Ward Street. “I had to convince [the owner] to turn down these million-dollar offers she was getting for the property and go with this ragtag new business that wasn’t going to just tear everything down,” Lifton told Milwaukee Magazine in 2021…