Three New Establishments Coming Downtown!!

[Driven1]

According to one of our posters, there will be three new "entertainment-based" businesses announcing they are establishing a downtown presence.  They should be announcing within 1-2 weeks.

This is big news!

Anyone want to speculate who/what they may be?? 

Here is more info...

It turns out that there are presently three entertainment based establishments that will be announcing that they will be opening downtown.  Nothing national, local places.

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,2035.msg18238/topicseen.html#new

[Driven1]

yeah, i saw this...but that is all so blase...."public knowledge"...THIS, THIS is insider scoop info on businesses that haven't yet opened the doors!!!!   

can't wait to hear!!

[Driven1]

Oh, I'm sorry Mr. Dare.  I thought you had said you heard these things at your secret downtown meeting and that you were asked not to reveal who it was at this time?  I only took that to mean it was kind of "insider information".  I apologize if I misinterpreted.

[Driven1]

Well, let's not get tripped up over semantics!!  The fact is:  Downtown is getting three new entertainment-based businesses and THAT is exciting!!

Can't wait to find out more.

[David]

Oh, I'm sorry Mr. Dare.  I thought you had said you heard these things at your secret downtown meeting and that you were asked not to reveal who it was at this time?  I only took that to mean it was kind of "insider information".  I apologize if I misinterpreted.

secret meetings?

um......wow.

alright, i'm putting you both in time out!....with my cloutful newbie status


And about the 3 new establishments, meh, i'm going to hold off on the excitement for a little while until more concrete info emerges. Downtown has broken my heart too often with promising news over the past 5 years....So i've got alil baggage!

[Driven1]

Tony, lol...i think we needed you to step in there!  Newbie or not, you were needed!

Now, yeah, I heard about Ian's newly proposed place too...actually, I think I read that somewhere.  Can't wait to see the other 2.  I've been to Shantytown no less than 7 or 8 times Mr. Dare.  Surprised I have not ran into you there ever.

[David]

Thanks, Tony, as I said, I should have some more info on the three places later on today.   One of them I know is the new place by one of the posters on this board, Triclops.

I can let him speak to that however, and as it happens, he has already alluded to it in another post.

Ian Ranne owns the super popular and totally wonderful Shanty Town pub in Springfield.

I don't want to spoil his surprise,---and I really don't have a lot of detail anyways, but he is one of them.

Ah yes! I've known Ian for quite sometime, last time I started talking about his project on here he told me to shut it until he can make an "official announcement" haha....  That project i'm pretty stoked about.  I'll look foward to hearing about the other two when you make an announcement

[David]

Ah yes! I've known Ian for quite sometime, last time I started talking about his project on here he told me to shut it until he can make an "official announcement" haha....  That project i'm pretty stoked about.  I'll look foward to hearing about the other two when you make an announcement

Shhhhhhh!  You are in danger of breaking the secret codes of our Secret Meeting Brotherhood of Secrecy and Secret Things.

We arent really making announcements, incidentally.  The subject came up as a matter of conversation in another thread and Driven1 created this thread to try and put me on the spot.

However there does seem to be some interest on the part of our non trolling posters.

Apparently the working name of the club going in next to Nicky G's is the Ivy Club.

The owners have done due dilligence for the past three months, after the landowner tried unsuccessfully to help a club called Metropolis open in the same space.

The new group outright purchased a full liquor liscense for the establishment and has a projected start date of May 1st.

No information about the music or theme of the place yet.

And having toured the space today, I would predict at least three months before any opening as there is still extensive plumbing to do before its ready for a bar or bathroom.

Sorry about that, didn't mean to break into your skull&cross bones society thread! And yea announcement was the wrong wording, damn corproate world's brainwashing me with their business speak!  that makes it seem very formal like you're at a dinner clanging on some wine glasses.  *ding ding ding* I have an announcement to make...

I was wondering what happened to metropolis, apparently it was going to be " a club unlike anything Jacksonville has seen" which was the last thing I heard about it.

thanks for the info sir!

[02roadking]

Whatever happened to the planned hair salon downstairs, second story bar/club with rooftop terrace around the corner from G's on Ocean St.

[RiversideGator]

According to one of our posters, there will be three new "entertainment-based" businesses announcing they are establishing a downtown presence.  They should be announcing within 1-2 weeks.

This is big news!

Anyone want to speculate who/what they may be?? 

A new show bar??   

[RiversideGator]

Im a non smoker, and very seldom drink.

That's no fun.

[Dapperdan]

No news yet, Stephen?