Monday, October 26, 2009
The city’s legal battle to close the long-contested 821 Club met with victory last week. The club surrendered its liquor license Tuesday and went up for sale Thursday.
The nightclub’s location at 821 Iowa St. has been the site of multiple violent incidents this year. A man was arrested there in March in connection with a stabbing outside the club. Another man was arrested in April for disorderly conduct while carrying a handgun, and three more were arrested in July after a shooting outside the club.
Rich Blackmon, formerly a consultant to the owners, said that the closing had everything to do with the club’s city code violations, and nothing to do with the violence that had occurred there.
He said the city had fined the club for not having the minimum number of parking spaces required by city code to operate a nightclub.
Formerly called Club Axis, the business changed management in May and was renamed the 821 Club in an attempt to salvage its reputation.
District County Judge Michael Malone ordered the club’s owners in September to pay the city $100 every day that it failed to meet the minimum number of parking spaces, as well as $11,500 in legal fees.
The owners are due back in court for a hearing this Tuesday, and their attorneys have filed an appeal in the case.
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pantheon (anonymous) says...
Don't worry, it'll be back, with just as much stabbing and shooting. From the moon bar to club Axis to 821, that address has been the flame for many a moth.
I'm curious what it is about that location that makes it so bad. I've never been there in any of its incarnations.
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