Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Cream / Hot Goss Positively Fourth Avenue: Rocketown to Be Sold for $5.6 Million, Moving
Posted by Steve Haruch on Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM
J.R. Lind, SouthComm's resident bow-tie-wearing emo apologist, reports that Rocketown has found a new location and will be selling its current home to the city for a cool 5.6 milly:
To make way for the extension of Korean Veterans Boulevard, Metro will buy the teen-centered music venue Rocketown for $5.6 million.The Metro Development and Housing Agency board agreed to purchase the site at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Shirley Street Wednesday. ReGina Newkirk, Rocketown's executive director, said it was important the not-for-profit maintain its downtown presence.
"It's crucial to us to reach the youth we serve," she said.
Newkirk said Rocketown is close to finalizing a $6.2 million deal to purchase the Grooms Engine building on Fourth Avenue.
Apparently the new space will be smaller than the current location, but they are planning on offering the same stuff (music, skating, caffeine). Via Nashville Post.
I'm not good at math, but $6.2 million for a (smaller) new place and a $5.6 million deal for the existing location leaves about $600,000 unspoken-for. I guess that's why they have fundraisers.
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skatechurch.
wow.
i wonder what bertrand russell would say about something called "skatechurch". just curious.
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While I do think that getting indoctrinated by "hip" christians is better than getting shot or addicted to heroin, having a kid in a place where they'll hear every screamo band in America is far more detrimental to our collective cultural fabric, not to mention their potential to one day end up making good music. I'd send my kids to Fallujah before I sent them to Rocketown.
Rocketown is like my home. i love that place and i wont ever stop going there. you guys are dumb to say that it sucks.
Rocketown is an awesome place and is like a home to me. you guys suck to say stuff like that. PS Gold, your writing is invalid.
FINALLY.
I will be able to get from 8th avenue to the bridge without having to do that squiggly stop-sign-to-the-light-that-never-goes-green thingy. Tear it down.
The same handful of bands play there every month with a rotating assortment of mid level touring bands. If it was Micheal W. Smiths dream to create a home of musical and scene elitism then congratulations. He succeeded, christian bands are booked there so seldomly anymore that they should replace any reference to christianity, and while they are at it they should never, ever again use the words "variety of music".
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