Those include The Peanut Gallery (open 1994 to 2000) The Edge (2000-2012) along with the most recent club, Touché (2012-present).
Since the early 1990s, the no-frills structure has been a fixture in the life of LGBT Springfield as home of three popular gay bars. Its north wall still carries a painted mural celebrating that company, which now mainly operates out of a building at Kimbrough Avenue and Walnut Street.Īs of 1940, it was the home of a Social Security Administration office, Sellars said. dates back to at least 1968, when it was put into use for the Ballew Saw & Tool company. 31 - an extension from the timeframe outlined in an earlier version of the contract, which allowed Ballew to set the closing date of the transaction as late as Monday of this week. The February plan shows that the rest of the block would be remade into a "central commons and urban park," possibly including a giant cashew nut sculpture, along with a multi-story parking garage on Water Street near Missouri State University's eFactory.īallew, Touché's landlord, said that the current sale contract provides for a closing date as late as Dec.
"We are hopeful to find a new home and continue serving the community," Welch said.Ī Vecino Group plan released in late February indicates that Touché and adjacent real estate along Phelps Street and Boonville Avenue would be replaced by an L-shaped office building with multiple floors, including street-level commercial space. At that time, Welch added that Touché management planned to relocate the bar.Īs of Monday, the nightclub still plans to relocate, Welch said, though he declined to share details on the record. They were in "shock," Welch told the News-Leader last summer. Worst bar on 6th street should have known by the lack of customers.In July 2017, Touché management said that it learned from news reports, not its landlord, about the approaching sale and demolition of the bar property. To anyone trying to have a good time do not come here, our night was ruined. If formal language is your preference I believe you're in the wrong field.
At your big age you would think it’s not a hard concept to grasp, especially because of how “educated” you are right? Lol please. I'll be happy to remind you! You work at a bar. To the bartender who asked us to leave for not giving him the upmost respect after disrespecting my boyfriend as well- Someone who is as nasty as you does not deserve my respect and perhaps you need to reevaluate where you're working. Immediately we're stoped and he try's to correct me saying I need to ask "may I" instead of "can I". My boyfriend and I walked in seating ourselves at the bar top and proceeded to give our order. 5 months ago The bartender must have been having a really really bad day I wish I would have caught his name but he refereed to himself as an "English man".anyways.