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New tenant to take over old Spiros location
Orlando, Fla., bar owner John Gardner will soon open a new club in the Red River Street building once occupied by Spiros nightclub, according to a news release from SkylesBayne, the real estate company that handled negotiations for the tenant.
Spiros closed back in June after eight people were injured in a May 30 shooting at the club. Two Central Texas rap artists, Brandon Bruce Hutchison, 25, and LaBaaron Demon Hutchison, 21, were charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the incident.
Gardner, owner of Orlando’s Independent Bar, leased the roughly 4,500-square-foot building. A longtime fixture in downtown Orlando, Independent Bar is a multi-room dance club featuring video walls that play indie rock and ’80s music videos.
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By JT
November 13, 2009 2:13 PM | Link to this
Spiros used to be the Crossing, a gay leather and bondage bar.
By please, not another Polly Esthers
November 13, 2009 2:26 PM | Link to this
It’s good to hear there will be a new tenant, but I hope the plan isn’t just to replicate the Independent Bar here because a “multi-room dance club featuring video walls that play indie rock and ’80s music videos” will probably flop within the first year.
By me
November 13, 2009 3:50 PM | Link to this
as long as its not ghetto i am happy. whats the point of opening another place where people shoot each other over their own egos. get a life, jerks.
By e
November 14, 2009 1:19 PM | Link to this
You know that indie rock is over when someone from Disneyland is cashing in on the genre.