Well at least we know that nobody will ever get shot @ "Sugar" again!

Will it ever stop being a storefront of doom?

sweet!

Replace it with cheesy overpriced condos. That venue is cursed anyway.

I'll buy it and turn it into a strip joint.

Hooray. Now just get rid of War Room and Club Lagoon and we can have our neighborhood back.

I think we need to salt the earth where Sugar stood so no more asinine clubs open there...

turn it into something Capitol Hill REALLY needs, an H & M store...

or Virgin Music...

or a Bubba Gumps...

turn it into a rollerskating rink. no one ever gets shot at those

drat

It is an awkward space. Make it the showroom for the Comet.

Reclaim it as a dyke bar - that's the only thing that was ever successful there anyway.

Wasn't Sugar originally an upscale boy bar? When did that change, anyway?

Club Lagoon's been gone for months and months. Turn your hatred to Kurrent.

Ooooh! Kurrent sucks!

NOW where are all the asian ganstahs going to hang out with the string of bitches they're pullin'?

I'm down for a roller rink. There isn't one in the Downtown area. Some get on that shit.

I'll believe it when I see it. They said Tommy's was closing too after the shooting of the bouncer there, but it looks like they are still in business.

why doesn't my keyboard have a backwards "k"? it doesn't feel right talking about kurrent without it.

How about opening a Seattle version of Sidetracks like in Chicago? THAT is a great gay bar with TONS of hot guys (unlike Seattle) but we would need to import the guys from Chicago to Seattle for the idea to work.

I know someone who knows someone who worked there when it first opened...the owners wanted an exclusive, gay, Studio 54 vibe and actively tried the velvet rope shit and kept out the awkward, the uncool and the fat...it failed, dismally, and rightfully so, and so they went the hip-hop route without changing the name, which is criminal and led to some unfortunate instances in the club after the changeover. The owners ARE scumballs.

and people getting all racist on the other post, (specifically, anti-black) are retarded. Anyone who's been to Sugar, or walked by frequently on the weekend would know that the clientel there was overwhelmingly Asian/Latin/White...young and suburban.

is Club Lagoon really gone, too? When did that happen?

Justice is served, the owner is a douchebag, he sunk the down under, now this club sunk. Poor business practices+treating your employees like shit+being a sellout= justice for the hill.

Good riddance to bad rubbish!

"Please keep me posted on the guy in the hospital or if they catch the killer." ???? Did George know someone was going to get shot? Why look for a killer if no one is dead. Interesting..... very interesting.

Roller rink! Roller rink!

There used to be S&M parties in the basement of that building in the mid-eighties! The Seattle Boxing Club was the name of the "space", but that's all I know about it.

But a roller rink would serve the entire population, rather than just people into S&M.

MAYOR NICKELS WINS ANOTHER ROUND

Dave Meinert, are you in hiding? Where are the Stranger/Music lobby rants?

Smart Mayor, public safety is a great issue to campaign on.

NEXT - After hours fag club, no liquor, hot dancers, like a queer strip club with quality flesh, and some movement skills.

Male corps de ballet in training, stuff. Dom can help pick 'em.

Four hang outs closing in Nov. - what a time to own a bar on C. Hill. $$$$$$$$$$$$ to be made.

thats three for roller rink!

I want an S&M roller rink!

sounds like the perfect place for ManRay to move into

i vote for manray as well!

HEY #26 and 27: Send an e-mail to Manray and ask them if they will look at buying the location of Sugar.

Their e-mail is info@manrayvideo.com

Make Sugar's location for the Gays: NO MORE BREEDER BARS ON CAPITAL HILL!!!

Why try again and again where others have failed? Instead, work with what works for that space. Put in a gun range.

A gay S&M Roller disco!

My heart stands still with anticipation!

Can we get another bowling alley? Leilani Lanes is gone, Sunset Bowl is closing, and bowling is a sport where people bring you booze.

breeder bars are fine. more breeder bars like linda's, the cha cha, the mercury, the barca lounge, the comet, etc are great. however, breeder bars like club lagoon, war room, kurrent, belltown billiards, cowgirls inc, et al, do not belong on the hill.

I'm taking it over and putting in my new bar concept; it's a gay male version of HOOTERS, called PECKERS...

I'll be conducting in depth interviews all next week for waitstaff, barbacks, and fluffers.

Wear your own (loose fitting) running shorts.

This would have never happened if they named the place Gay Bar.

I vote for manray or shooting range

Ah, if only I could see a letter like that posted from the owner of The Funhouse.

It should be an arcade with pinball and a huge ballroom - take that as you like (mean the ones from Chucky Cheese). Or the roller rink sounds good, but would mean you have to take out Ballet to make it a good size rink, otherwise it's like 15 people drunk and crashing into one another all night... wait that sounds fun... ROLLER RINK!

Let's just hope Mark Driscoll doesn't have eyes on this location.

Sugar is/was a dangerous place. It attracted immature and uncultured young adults to a vibrant, confidant and mostly sophisticated neighborhood. Two worlds collided.

A group of young males (who were Asian) from their attacked & assaulted my friends and me last summer. We did report this incident to the cops. This and many issues can be brought up the Capitol Hill community forum on safety on November 27 at Broadway Performance Hall at 6pm.

Combine Mr. Paddywacks with Pony and you're making money hand over clammy fist! Manray, ugh but the sweater set needs somewhere too.

A lesbian H&M Roller shooting range!

Sunset Bowl is closing? WTF?

Yay Manray!

Sunset Bowl is NOT closing.

Gitai, you scared the shit outta me!

Yeah, I talked to the manager. Apparently it's a rumor that keeps popping up every so often. Not true.

can they move fun forest there?

@45 Well thank God for that. I'd heard that it was slated to become another condo development.

But regarding the liability issue he mentioned, what the fuck is he talking about? That doesn't cost him anything. It costs his insurance company money, unless he was fool enough to let coverage lapse or something.

being a small businesss owner, and that my bakery shares the same name, I am sort of sorry to see sugar nightclub go, as it will put an end to those amusing late night sunday calls I get on my answering machine of drunk people driving around on their cell phones calling us, looking for the sugar on pike, and ending up calling sugar on madison.

This just in from a reliable source. Mars Hill Church is looking at turning into Mars Hill Church Capitol Hill

Whatever happened to embracing a neighborhood with a diverse people and diverse needs? I thought that is what separated Capitol Hill from the rest of Seattle. You sound so hypocritical and ignorant when you judge people on the way they look. True, the nightclub attracted more blacks and Asians to the neighborhood, but they were not a bunch of gang bangers.
The clientele was representative of the entire city demographic.
Besides, who are you to judge who the right people are for the neighborhood?
Capital Hill should not be some private gay utopia for hipsters and individualist.
If you want it that way, buy a private island somewhere.

Don’t get me wrong, the fact that a shooting occurred there sucks, be we live in a city and shitty things sometime happen.
I have been employed as a bartender at Sugar since it opened. When nights got rowdy, specifically our latest Thursday Promotion, we expressed our concerns to George and the management. It was our suggestion that he should enforce a stricter dress code and fire the individual promoters that were responsible for bringing the wrong element into the club. Instead, George went a step further and canceled the entire Thursday night promotion. This decision probably caused him a substantial financial loss but he felt that the safety of the club should not be jeopardized.

Following several violent shooting incidents at other Seattle nightclubs, George contracted with SARKA. “SARKA is a professional security organization that utilizes a multi-national network of Subject Matter Experts (ItSME) whose combined experience and education offers the most up-to-date security expertise for High Risk Environments and other sensitive operations.” (http://sarkainternational.com) SARKA has served provided security at Sugar Nightclub since August, 2007. Since the shooting on Sunday Night, SARKA has not returned any of George’s phone calls or emails.

Your obsession with the location of this tragedy is ridiculous.
But we do need to blame somebody for this tragedy.
Let’s blame hip hop. Let’s blame the parents of the shooter. Let’s blame the gun manufacturer. Let’s blame violent video games and movies. Let’s blame the police for failing to catch him sooner.

On second thought, maybe we should just blame the “waste of life” that decided to shoot three people in a crowded nightclub.

To the Owners of Neumos,

Why do you attack the professionalism of Sugar? On several occasions this summer when I was showing up for work at Sugar, I saw your security behind the Shell gas station alleyway. What where they doing behind there you may ask. Well, they were smoking pot before starting work and protecting your club. True, you have been lucky so far that there hasn’t been a major issue there. But don’t fool yourself, it isn't due to your attentiveness to the safety of your club. Just thought you might want to know.

Here is the website address again for the contracted “security specialist” at Sugar. Maybe the journalist at The Stranger will do their due diligence and actually do the investigative work that has been neglected by the other news sources.
SARKA

fyi: tighty-whitie under wear roller-skating party @ manray between 2 & 5 am (thurs night, fri morning)

shhh.... its a secret

SERIOUSLY!!!
tommy -
manray

oh! and thank you to the stranger after 8 years of spending $$$$ on our ads with you for not even a holla to us... i guess it really is about the $$$$...

stupid boy.......

tommy from manray