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Limelight/Avalon to become Mini Mall
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| Groundhog Boy |
SHOPPING 'CLUB'
LIMELIGHT WILL BE A MINI-MALL
December 19, 2006 -- The former Episcopal church that once housed the sacrilegious Limelight nightclub will be born again - as a retail mini-mall.
Now known as the Avalon nightclub, the legendary 12,000-square-foot venue on Sixth Avenue at West 20th Street will shutter its doors in early 2007.
"The landlord has decided that he doesn't want to go forward with another nightclub," said broker Frank Terzulli, of Winnick Realty Group.
"He's going to cut it up for retail tenants and a restaurant with patio seating."
Terzulli added, "The area is becoming more upscale with high-priced condos and stores, and that will make it more difficult to get permits from the community board" for a nightclub.
Cops have been cracking down on Chelsea nightclubs and their rowdy and sometimes violent patrons since the murder last summer of 18-year-old Jennifer Moore, who was killed after a night of drinking at the Guest House nightspot.
Officials have warned club owners that they will conduct more stings on underage drinking and insist that the clubs do more to police themselves.
Community leaders have also complained about Chelsea's club-filled districts, which have been blasted as a "teenage wasteland."
Landlord Ben Ashkenazy's company, Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp., owns and operates several retail malls and the three flagship Barneys stores in New York, Chicago and Beverly Hills.
Sources say international discount-clothing retailer H&M is the likely main tenant for the space, which features triple-height ceilings and mezzanine levels.
A representative for Winnick would not confirm any specific names, since no leases have yet been signed.
Limelight, founded in the deconsecrated church in 1983, hosted some of clubland's wildest parties in the '80s and early '90s under now-deported club king Peter Gatien.
In 1996, federal agents charged that Limelight was a "drug supermarket" and shut it down.
Gatien was acquitted of racketeering and drug charges but convicted of tax evasion. He spent time in jail and was eventually deported to his native Canada.
That same year, one of the club's flamboyant promoters, Michael Alig, pleaded guilty to manslaughter for killing Angel Melendez, a club regular and reputed drug dealer over a money dispute. He's still in jail.
Limelight reopened under new management but was shuttered again in 2002.
It came back to life in November of that year as the short-lived Estate. Avalon followed a few months later.
Source - http://www.nypost.com/seven/1219200...braden_keil.htm |
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| Konijn |
| we might as well move to ing skokie... |
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| Groundhog Boy |
If there's one thing we need in NYC, it's another H&M
At least they could make it entertaining and turn it into a Duane Reade or CVS. |
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| PvDoBseSSioN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Groundhog Boy
If there's one thing we need in NYC, it's another H&M
At least they could make it entertaining and turn it into a Duane Reade or CVS. |
lol true, sucks that it will be shut down 4 good, even though it wa a venue that's not the point. the city is shutting down clubs left and right, what will we be left with if this keeps going? |
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| djquick83 |
| Or they could make it a church again. Ehh, who am I kidding. The space had so much going on in there that anybody who went is going the opposite way of Heaven. ROTF. :p :D |
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| Twilogoddess |
| quote: | Originally posted by Groundhog Boy
If there's one thing we need in NYC, it's another H&M
At least they could make it entertaining and turn it into a Duane Reade or CVS. |
Like we need more duane reade's or CVS'. :haha: :haha: :haha: |
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| PvDoBseSSioN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Twilogoddess
Like we need more duane reade's or CVS'. :haha: :haha: :haha: |
plus isn't there one right across the street? |
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| Twilogoddess |
| quote: | Originally posted by PvDoBseSSioN
plus isn't there one right across the street? |
hahahaaaaaaaaa YES and a starbucks. ;) :haha: |
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| ReenTeenTeen |
I'll just have to take a minute of silance since that place was my second home through the 90's and I love its memory dearly.
WHAT A SHAME!!! |
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| AY STAR |
yea like we dont have enuff h&m's either lol
watever iam not gonna knock them i shop there once in a while
but yea its sad for that building but i think the era died long ago for the building i think this is just the nail in the coffin for them
the strange thing is that this building has landmark status and i belive you cant really change the exterior of the building so its gonna be a weird ass lookin mall |
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| partyhopper |
Sad, so sad
First NYC club I ever went to, in December 1995
Tiesto + Scott Bond + Guy Ornadel (and a little bit of Johnny Vicious) playing there in 2001 was a night for the record books
Even though Avalon wasn't quite the same, Ferry Corsten's 6-hour set there was also a fantastic night |
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| neon |
| quote: | Originally posted by partyhopper
... Ferry Corsten's 6-hour set there was also a fantastic night |
+1
In particular Ferry @ Avaland, 02/28/04 or 03; can't remember .. the night after PvD @ Roseland 02/27/04 or 03; can't remember.
Damn this is sad. What will I say when I walk back in there when the site reopens? "This is where me and my friend was tripping balls", :this is where I puked when I had 4 white russians", "this is where I did some naughty stuff with some viet girl" .. LOL the memories. |
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