Cascade Lakes Brewing Company has lavish plans for the corner of Colorado Avenue and Century Drive. With timber sidings, high ceilings and a fireplace, the new Cascade Lakes Brewing Lodge may offer more than 10 varieties of draft beer and a full menu.

The micro brewing company proposes to open a 6,000-square-foot location next summer. Ron Kutella, co-owner of Cascade Lakes, will develop the plot with developer Chris Cochran.

”It will be a little more upscale than our Seventh Street Brew House in Redmond but we hope it will be a neighborhood place where people will gather to have a good sandwich, visit with their friends and drink good beer,” said Kutella. ”We hope to also attract crowds off the slopes. That’s a bonus.”

Cascade Lakes would be the first pub skiers must pass on the way back from Mount Bachelor.

The new addition to the franchise will have a full service bar as well as lunch and dinner including pastas, salads and steaks, according to Kutella. The brewer also opened a pub in Sisters a month ago.

Along with the pub, another building is proposed for development to house four retail spaces, 9,000 square feet in all.

Cochran has received letters of interest from established businesses in Bend that are planning to relocate or expand such as a bike shop, snowboard shop, women’s athletic apparel store, small gourmet coffee shop and an outfitter for telemark skiing, snowshoeing and climbing gear.

”The idea being that the same type of people that might rent the athletic equipment might also stop by for a beer or coffee,” Cochran said.

National retailers such as a video and pizza chain are interested and offered higher rates for the space but Cochran and Kutella opted to bring in local businesses instead. The team is selling its retail space for $1.35 per square-foot.

”We are really catering to the local business people instead of national tenants,” Cochran said. ”We made a conscious choice that make it a neighborhood area with some character and appeal.

There are long-time Central Oregon tenants with great credit histories interested.”

Cochran anticipates that they will break ground in four to six months and the spaces will be available for businesses by next summer. ”The bottleneck is the city right now,” Cochran said. ”A construction time line of seven months is not unreasonable.”

Monica Lee can be reached at mlee@bendbulletin.com