Not sure if this was mentioned somewhere already. Here's the T.U. article from today.
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By Roger Bull
Burro Bags is getting into the bar business. The Burro Bar is scheduled to open next month at the corner of Adams and Ocean streets, the former home of London Bridge Pub.
The bar will actually be owned by a group of friends and partners, said Jack Twachtman, vice president of sales and marketing for the company that makes a variety of bags and other products downtown.
Twachtman said that Ian Ranne, owner of Shantytown Pub in Springfield and Lomax Lodge in Five Points, first approached the company about using its name on a bar.
London Bridge, which opened in 2002, closed last September.
So Ranne, Twachtman, Matt Hume and the Burro Bags company itself went in together to create the new place.
Twachtman said it'll be a beer (20 taps) and wine bar, with a strong emphasis on music.
"We'll go after the shows that Jack Rabbits passes on because they don't know about but we do," he said, referring to the San Marco music club.
The music - young and independent - will probably start off two days a week and grow from there, he said.
The main bar in the front room will be able to be separated from the back music room so that it will still be open when ticketed shows are being held in back.
The kitchen will also be separated from the bar, he said, but they're hoping to lease that out to someone who will operate a take-out place with its own entrance. Burro Bar will not serve food.
"It's going to be a dive for sure," Twachtman said. "We can put all kinds of paint on it, but it's still going to be a dive. That's what we do."
Opening is planned for Art Walk on May 4.
Meanwhile, Burro Bags scored its biggest order ever recently when Urban 1Outfitters decided to give the company a test run on its website and in its New York and San Francisco stores. It ordered 75 bags to see how they sell.
The company's biggest seller is still pedal straps for bicycles, but Twachtman said orders for those, which retail for $40-$50, rarely top $500.
"But we're picking up new shops every week," he said.
Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/business/2011-04-04/story/jacksonville-company-burro-bags-now-adds-bar-its-expanding-repertoire#ixzz1IYVPd8nI
This is great news!! :o 8)
That is great another venue looking to support good live shows. I know Latitude 30 wants to start making waves with their Latitude live venue with a more aggressive approach on music acts. I guess the music hierarchy right now is Colosseum, TU center, Florida Theater, Freebird and then jackrabbits. Definitely lots of room to have more live music venues. Good luck Burro Bags.
They're on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/burrobar?ref=ts (http://www.facebook.com/burrobar?ref=ts)
If everything at the haydon burns library get off the ground as expected, this is going to be a very interesting little corner. ;)
Great news! The Burro Bags guys are doing big things.
@Jeffrey, you forgot the St. Augustine Amphitheater. They get some pretty good acts there. Off my head Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips, My Morning Jacket, Kings of Leon, and Vampire Weekend. Those are all pretty huge national acts that headline the music festival circuit.
Jacksonville really needs a venue that can bring in quality indie acts, which is pretty much where all the good music is these days. I saw a ridiculous amount of good shows in my time at FSU (for free): Yeah Yeah Yeahs, White Stripes, Spoon, Wilco, The National, The Walkmen, Broken Social Scene, Of Montreal and countless others. They bring in a steady stream of good indie groups like YeaSayer, Mates of State, Dirty Projectors, Camera Obscura, Deerhunter, No Age, and countless others.
Unfortunately most good acts bypass Jax and go to Gville, Tally, and Orlando. Mostly because we don't have a quality venue that caters to the indie scene and has the capacity/resources to bring in those type of acts. It also doesn't help that UNF is a bunch of Pepper/Slightly Stoopid loving beach bums.
Hopefully what goes in at The Library will be able to make big things happen.
Quote from: CityLife on April 04, 2011, 11:38:47 AM
It also doesn't help that UNF is a bunch of Pepper/Slightly Stoopid loving beach bums.
LOL!
On another note, The Sinclair closed without much fanfare last week...
Quote from: RockStar on April 04, 2011, 11:49:03 AM
Quote from: CityLife on April 04, 2011, 11:38:47 AM
It also doesn't help that UNF is a bunch of Pepper/Slightly Stoopid loving beach bums.
LOL!
I should add that I didn't mean that phrase in a bad way...Just that UNF's student body in general doesn't really lend itself to culture. This is the same student body that walked out on Demetri Martin on homecoming.
I've seen Pepper and Slightly Stoopid live and they put on a great show and are good beach tunes.
It's just that you so succinctly described UNF...please don't ruin it with a caveat ;D
Quote from: RockStar on April 04, 2011, 11:49:03 AM
Quote from: CityLife on April 04, 2011, 11:38:47 AM
It also doesn't help that UNF is a bunch of Pepper/Slightly Stoopid loving beach bums.
LOL!
On another note, The Sinclair closed without much fanfare last week...
To bad The Sinclair couldn't hold on until the new courthouse opens. It would be cool to see an E-Town 2.0 develop over there.
Quote from: CityLife on April 04, 2011, 11:38:47 AM
Great news! The Burro Bags guys are doing big things.
@Jeffrey, you forgot the St. Augustine Amphitheater. They get some pretty good acts there. Off my head Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips, My Morning Jacket, Kings of Leon, and Vampire Weekend. Those are all pretty huge national acts that headline the music festival circuit.
Your right about the Amphitheater. I went to Kings of Leon there the show and the venue were great.
QuoteJacksonville really needs a venue that can bring in quality indie acts, which is pretty much where all the good music is these days.
We need a few more venues.