Park City’s Top of Main Brew Pub closes after 37-year run

A New York investor’s planned purchase of the building at 530-544 Main Street has ended Top of Main Brew Pub’s 37-year run, clearing out one of the southern end’s most familiar anchors and signaling more pressure on legacy businesses in Park City’s resort economy.

Building owner Greg Schirf said the original Wasatch Brewpub was under contract to be sold as of April 28, with the deal expected to close in about 60 days. He said the new owners bought out and terminated the tenant’s lease, and the business and all of its equipment have to be moved by the end of July. Top of Main will keep producing beer for a short time, but the restaurant and bar itself is done.

The closure removes more than another Main Street dining option. For decades, the brewpub helped define the southern end of the shopping, dining and entertainment strip, pairing local history with a visible role in daily downtown life. Schirf opened Wasatch Brewery in 1986, when it became Utah’s first craft-beer microbrewery, then opened the brew pub at the top of Main Street in 1988, making it the state’s first brewpub. In 2023, after Monster Beverage Corporation bought Wasatch and Squatters breweries in 2022, the Park City restaurant was rebranded as Top of Main Brew Pub.

The loss comes at a time when Park City’s Main Street business landscape is being reshaped by real estate values, redevelopment pressure and changing ownership. Local reporting in 2024 and 2025 showed the brewpub lot had already entered broader discussions about the future of Main Street, including concepts tied to a possible Deer Valley gondola connection. Now, the site is in transition again, and what replaces a longtime brewery and restaurant will matter as much to Main Street’s identity as to its economics.

Top of Main’s closing also fits a wider pattern. Main Street Pizza & Noodle shut down after 35 years, citing rising rent, a reminder that even the oldest operators can be squeezed when building prices and lease terms climb faster than restaurant margins. In a town where visitors drive a lot of the business model, the pressure is not just on one brewpub. It is on the long-running local places that give Main Street its continuity, its jobs and its after-hours draw.