Sorry, friend, but XO went down in flames too. Remember the lost lawsuit that the XO club tried to escape the consequences of by selling out to Holloway and creating a new sham corporation? Fortunately Judge O’Malley saw through this corporate scam and told him he can’t ruin a neighborhood and its residents and businesses and environment just because it happens to own a liquor license. This place is really like a hydra that seems to grow a new head every so often. The bottom line is that clubs with this size of crowd of
patrons, many of them well beyond the legal intoxication limit, don’t belong in this neighborhood. I hope others who actually care about what kind of city and neighborhoods we have will help to stop Clubstatic from ever growing its new hydra like head. Maybe if
more people really cared about Westport, it
would become the great community it has the
potential to become, and not just another
ghetto of self indulgent bar owners who
seem to have forgotten their humanity.

Dear Francis,
Our argument is not against bars. This
proposed club, Clubstatic, and its predecessors, Club Evolution and XO, etc.are not bars. They have been huge nightclubs which draw in hundreds of people at once, over a thousand in fact . The neighborhood cannot support that. There is a bar down the street, Dave’s Stagecoach Inn, that the neighborhood can support. There is a restaurant/bar, 303 Bistro, that the neighborhood can support. But this is a completely different animal, and the problem is increased further by their desire to stay open until 3 am. When you put a thousand people, drinking heavily until 3 am in the morning, into a neighborhood where people live, you have an enterprise that is harmful to the community no matter what kind of measures they try to take. We deserve better. The homes, the church, the library and a number of the businesses have been around a whole lot longer than this particulaler nightclub. Surely there is a more suitable
environment.

Francis,

I’m not sure. As for NIMBY, It’s not like a 1,000 person dance club is necessary to our
civilization, as, say, jails, power
plants, trash dumps, etc. are. They could
go to another part of Westport for that matter. There seem to be any number of regular vacancies between, say Broadway and
Mill Street and 39th street and
41st street. Or what about the new Power
and Light District, or really anywhere
where there aren’t lots and lots of homes
within 250 feet of the place.

“They could
go to another part of Westport for that matter.”

To someone else’s back yard.

“There seem to be any number of regular vacancies between, say Broadway and
Mill Street and 39th street and
41st street.”

So he should take a loss on the investment of purchasing the building he owns and buy another one, in someone else’s back yard.

To Francis,

There are plenty of places, even in
Westport, that aren’t in anyone’s backyard.
That’s the whole problem. This is in
someone’s backyard. The Hurricane, America’s
Pub, Beaumont, Kelly’s, etc.—they aren’t
in anyone’s backyard. So no one, including
me, is upset about them. But this club is
in a lot of people’s backyard, and so it’s
a totally different situation. The people
who owned that building made plenty of money
from it for years and years and years. They
are doing fine.

atlantis and xo were the best the music and the atmosphere was great. but, evolution on the other hand that was just a scary place i didnt even feel safe in there. i hope static is going to be different if it ever happens.
i got a question for reverend scott meyers, i can see living next to that monster would in fact be a hardship and from what im under the impression of is that the old owner really didnt care to much for the neighborhood making that hardship even more of a burden, but my question is what about this new guy who owns it now? is he a good person who is trying to help the neighborhood and make it so that the neighbors are comfortable? i hear alot of rumors about this place and would love to see it open. but open with a good vibe and having the neighbors happy or at a point of tollerence. it doesnt matter how good the club is if the neighborhood shuts it down in a year.

Rev. Meyers…

I would like to address one point you made, You said-
“XO club tried to escape the consequences of by selling out to Holloway and creating a new sham corporation”

If you remember, it was Holloway who had bought the club before the trial came to pass. Holloway owned the club, Holloway didn’t show up for the trial with a lawyer, Judge O’mally made him face his court date without being able to utter a word in his defense because he had no legal representation and in Missouri , a corporation must have a lawyer to defend itself. Obvoiusly a default judgement was found in favor of the neighborhood. Then after that Holloway blew off his appeal date. Then months after his appeal date was long gone, he realized how much trouble he was in, and finally he decided to fight, it was too late. That is when he sold the liquor license to a new corporation to try to get out of the judgement that had been entered, and you are correct Reverend… That was a sham sale ,and the Judge did enter a correct verdict, in forcing the judgement onto the new corporation. Those are the facts. Plain and simple.

As to whether the club should be there or not be there, It is one thing to force a club out of business, that has been in business for many years, and that is very very hard to do, the only reason it was done to Club Evolution is that the defense never was allowed to mount a defense in the trial(due to no ones fault but their own).

Now, on the other hand, now things are different, we are talking about a new club, and starting a liquor license from scratch. When you are starting from scratch the burden of proof falls the other way, and its up to the club to get the neighborhood to allow them in, and that is never going to happen again in that location.

So… In my opinion, Club Static is in a very very tough spot, and I really don’t see a way that they are going to get a “place of entertainment” liqour license.

I think that there were some awesome concepts over the years at 3954 Central, and would it have been better if there was no houses next door, of course! I think that for many years, people had a great time at that building, and we all made the best of a mix of residential and nightclub at the same location, Would it have been better with a little more space between the residential and commercial, sure, but we all made due.

Well, now the new guys are trying to start something from scratch, and the neiborhood is in a whole different position now, instead of trying to close a operating business, they are trying to stop a new business from starting, and that is much easier to do.

In my opinion, Club Static is probley not going to prevail in getting their license.

I am only stating facts, and not trying to give my feelings or this post would be twice as long as it and probley not quite as politically correct!
Stuart

You want a place for people to dance and have a good time. Follow by the rules. Keep the problems to a minimum. He’s only an old man living off of sueing people. I say we do the same thing. James Grow is the problem. He’s the one who started alll of this. You want a good place to dance and have fun. Do the same as he did. All the bars need to get to gether and form a party and stand up aginst this person. It’s just like a debate you need two parties. One who’s not with it all and one who’s with it. So you have problems with a bar…..So we have problems with you makeing more problems for us. We are trying to make a living we can’t help the matter of the fact is a place that is across the street. You knew what you where haveing to deal with when you moved to wesport. If you don’t like it then move to another place or keep your peace.

For the last to people who made comments. Go back or stay in school to. your grammer and spelling are bad

Another comment,Club Static needs to not serve alchohol & be courteous to it’s neighbors & James Grow needs to shut his mouth!!And if Club Static is a good thing,
James Grow & the community needs to get behind it!!PERIOD