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The Whiteaker neighborhood institution closed in December after 30 years of operation. But its three owners have sold the place to the former owner of Eugene’s SeQuential Biofuels.
Sam Bond’s Garage is teasing a summer reopening after its longtime owners sold the bar, closed the doors and bid farewell to the historic venue in December.
The bar made the announcement about the summer opening via its Instagram and sign marquee Feb. 1 — two months to the day since the Dec. 1 bingo night that marked the end of a 30-year run operating under its previous owners.
The buyer is Bluegrass LLC, the company of Eugene businessman Ian Hill, a previous owner of the distinctive Eugene gas station SeQuential Biofuels, who sold that company last August with his co-owner Tyson Keever.
A trust deed dated Dec. 15 indicates that Bluegrass took out a $525,000 loan to finance the sale days before it closed Dec. 18. The county pegged the real market valuation of the property at $445,476.
The news of the final sale was reported in the Eugene Weekly this weekend. The bar and community fixture’s December closure, pending sale and the new owner’s purported plans for the space were first reported by Lookout in December.
The sale comes after an extended back-and-forth about the bar and venue’s fate. The bar first announced it would close in November 2024, but rolled back that decision a month later. Then, in May 2025, the building was listed for sale for a $1 million asking price including the real estate, furniture, fixtures, equipment and business name.
The sale is not just a real estate transaction. It’s a transfer of stewardship for a historic Eugene landmark.
The garage is part of the Blair Boulevard Historic Commercial District’s entry on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built between 1918 and 1923 and was first an automobile repair shop belonging to Sam Bond, a Eugene mechanic and Depression-era City Council member, who ran the shop there until 1972. An environmental group used it as headquarters, before friends Mark Jaeger, Bart Caridio and Todd Davis purchased the building and reimagined it as a bar and music venue in 1995.
