Manhattan Deli has similar hours. I meant Blount St btw.
Blount St side has DGX, which is often crowded, and ‘El Toro Loco’ which has never opened. If you extend it to Skyhouse, there’s also 42 and Lawrence which is also doing well.
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The Blount St side in the parking garage. hahaha Try talking about that space. Sorry but that is the one space I was talking about originally.
Tell me which business you’re talking about. The Blount Street side of the businesses are the ones I just mentioned. DGX, El Toro Loco, and 42 & Lawrence.
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The retail space in the parking garage on Blount St side. The perennial dead space. The fact that you don’t know what I am talking about kinda proves my point. It’s blank on your map. Clyde Coopers’ space could end up that way. Like Ben and Wally’s, Chick-fil-a, Carolina Cafe, B Goods, Tasty 8’s.
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It’s never been open. You can’t say they’re struggling as a business when they’ve never been open for business.
Kind of proves our point that you have no idea what you’re talking about.
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Lol. It has been open. Several different times.
Not El Toro Loco obviously. Are you deliberately being obtuse? Other businesses in the past in that spot that didn’t last or even remotely successful.
Tell me where I referenced anything other than El Toro Loco. The same El Toro Loco that has never been open. The same El Toro Loco surrounded by plenty of successful businesses operating in the same vicinity. DGX, 42 & Lawrence, Big Ed’s, Blackbirds, El Rodeo, The Davie, Woody’s, Vic’s.
Yet, I’m the one being obtuse because one restaurant owner was never able to get their idea off the ground.
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Well clearly I am talking about the space itself historically. And you are trying to make it about only Toro Loco. But anyway I am done here.
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I specifically mentioned it and the fact that the business has never opened for business. The previous owner (who is a friend of a friend of mine) attempted to start their business as COVID started.
I’m not okay with someone intentionally misrepresenting situations to mean something that they aren’t. Every other business is doing fine except for a solo location that hasn’t even gotten off the ground and another that wants ‘more parking and less apartments’.
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OK you two. Time to take it to DM.
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This is a really useful add for us musicians. Rentable rehearsal space used to be limited to 2112 and storage units (ugh), and that was before 2112 relocated.
The room size is also a sweet spot we need to fill in DTR’s music scene. Looking forward to seeing what they come up with.
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Where did you see the room size?? Curious what the venue cap will be (?)
As for practice spaces, the main practice space building was Capital Soundspace; right off Capital, in front of Seaboard/next to that old mill condo building (forget what it’s called), which is now a … wait for it… storage unit building lmao. Ever since then, the only dedicated practice space building I know of is the VERY small warehouse I’m fortunate to be in - when I caught wind of Capital Soundspace being sold to a developer, I pounced on a room that a friend was wanting to co-rent. Been there ever since, and just counting the days till we find out our building is being sold and demo’d lmao
TBJ reporting it’s a 200-person cap.
I totally forgot about Soundspace! You’re thinking of Cotton Mill. I didn’t rent there but remember popping in a couple times with bands I knew.
Old Mill, Cotton Mill - same thing right? 
200 cap is nice, slightly smaller than Kings/Pour House, slightly bigger than Neptunes. Nice to have the variety.
Just another reminder this forum is more entuned than the local news.
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Be careful, Jake. This post looked mostly positive in sentiment and VERY few all caps. Just want to ensure we aren’t losing you to the undark side.
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Come now, a majority of my comments are positive/optimistic! Just not when it comes to parking decks, ugly buildings, and bad BBQ!
I don’t have any animosity toward the owner personally. Frankly, I don’t know that I’d ever spoken to her or heard about her more than paying my bill. Her position about why she’s leaving downtown is a non-issue with regard the BBQ that’s served.
All I’ve been saying is that Cooper’s being downtown is the only reason that I’ve eaten there. It’s not the sort of BBQ that I think is worth driving to get. If I have to get in my car, I’ll just go to CookOut for a more cost effective “fix” or I’ll drive to Old Time Barbeque for what I consider a superior product.
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