"someone who values the local music scene."

Meinert: stay away. We don't need you fucking this up like you ruined The Comet.

It would be a great restaurant location as well!

90K? That's a last-ditch effort to sell the stock and barrel in a sea of red ink.

$13K rent? Sounds like a landlord looking for an excuse to knock down an old building and go 65' up.

i wish i could afford it, i love working with jodi

#stayawaymeinert

I stopped gong when the acts got boring.

@7

Just to be clear, did you tell @6 to go start his own city?

If the issue is that $13k rent is too high, I would be amazed and impressed if any potential purchaser could get that reduced to actual sustainable levels -- and keep it there. The property owner has the upper hand here, as @6 alludes. The only thing that can stand up against profit/profiteering is popular organizing, which means politics, which means government and laws. And "Seattle process" moves too slowly, for the most part, or is just down with developers anyway.

Good bye, sweet Chop Suey, it's been good knowin' ya. I remember seeing Rodrigo & Gabriella there for their first Seattle visit (a sweaty-good time was that!), Antibalas, and many more. To say nothing of witnessing not one, but two lamentable Bush mandates begin during Stranger election night fêtes. Good times, all.

*snif* ... :'>\

What! No love for the Breakroom?

It will be demoed. For Condos. Another unintended consequence of the Strangers' promotion of density.

What I really want in this town is a watery cocktail for fifteen bucks.

When you get a drink at the airport and you think it's not a bad deal, you are living in the wrong place.

Say it with me. Vibrant Urban Lifestyle!

The taxes on that block must be very high. And with a new building going up across the street, they will only go up.

I figured that with the direction the city is going, we would lose some music venues. We already have (Funhouse), we still are (2 Bit Saloon), and although I'm surprised, I'm not holding out a lot of hope for Chop Suey, unless it gets gobbled up by the Meinert empire.

I've started seeing more bands booking shows at places like Tim's Tavern and Black Zia Cantina, both on the outskirts of the city. I wonder if that's where things are heading.

@17 Hey, thanks for the tip about Tim's Tavern! I've passed them a zillion times and just assumed it was a generic dive bar.

But still -- evaluated as a trend -- the reality is that within 2 miles of Chop Suey there are a dozen other venues for live music. Within 2 miles of Tim's Tavern is... Tim's Tavern. But also my house, so again, thanks!

Also, Black Zia looks cool, but is actually in Burien, which is a completely different city.

@19 That is true, but Black Zia Cantina and Tim's Tavern are pretty much equidistant from Downtown/Capitol Hill.

To me, evaluating as a trend, losing the Funhouse, 2 Bit, White Rabbit, (old) Comet, Waid's, and now possibly Chop Suey in just a couple of years? That's troublesome.

I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised if new music venue growth is concentrated either at the edges of the city, or in neighboring towns.