Welcome to The Downtown!
We call it “The Downtown” because it’s all that’s left of historic Downtown Grandview — a bustling place in the late 1800s. Right here on Main Street in Grandview, Iowa, you’ll find our beautifully reclaimed brick building on the corner — home to The Downtown Drinkery, a cozy gathering place for visitors and community to enjoy sipping and nibbling in a space that honors the past while creating new memories. You can even stay the night at our AirBnB and wake up right on Main Street.
This building once was home to a feed store, dry goods, a grocery store, and later a restaurant. After a devastating fire in 2023 destroyed the other side of our historic Main Street, this brick building stands as the sole survivor of what was once a thriving downtown.
Now it’s your place to unwind, slow down, and linger a little longer in our tiny town — and a testament to preservation and hope for what’s still possible.
How We Got Here
“We are worth the road trip.” These are scary words to say…
R7 Reclaimed was founded in 2016 in the tiny town of Grandview, Iowa. When visitors started coming from all over Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and South Dakota to our barn, they kept asking: “What else can we do while we are here?”
We don’t always want something more to do or buy. We all long for a place to just be. On a day with perfect weather, the barn provides that place to linger outside and take in the countryside, but in the winter season this big old barn suddenly becomes too small.
That’s where The Downtown comes in. We bought it with dreams of creating another gathering space for the R7 Road Trip. Shortly after, a fire swept through and destroyed the other side of Main Street. Some might say we were silly to open another location in our mostly deserted downtown, but we think someone has to go first. Now more than ever, this building represents not just what was, but what still can be.
If you stick around long enough you will see kids riding their bikes down the middle of the road and looking for something to pass the day, and we hope you find yourself doing the same.