It's a shame because this was one of my favorite places downtown. Likely a mixture of rent increases, variable influxes of customers during event nights, and lack of access to anyone outside the downtown core (nobody likes going to the bar and coming back in the morning to find the meter maids happily slapping tickets on windshields).
The question is: how can ICE district support the load of retail and hospitality that will be opening up in the new towers if one bar with a cult following can't sustainably operate before the the district has even opened? To me, this is something of a concern being that the district as it's designed will not be a steady draw of walk-through customers required to make the dozens of businesses busy at all times. The loss of the area theatre almost ensures this.
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