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The demise of downtown Indy marches on. Thank you Boss Hogsett.
Spoken like someone that hasn’t been downtown since the Union Station Festival Marketplace closed.
I enjoy the boom of new businesses and restaurants that have opened despite a raging Pandemic being fueled by “freedom” loving “it’s my choice” to get sick, die, and infect others, Republicans. Unfortunately that particular Republican strategy was really bad for a place that relies on crowds and audience energy to generate income.
Downtown did suffer during the start of the pandemic, like every other place did. However, I would recommend maybe leaving your culdesac and go downtown to see the great businesses that have survived and the new ones that are bringing new and exciting things to the area. There are certainly some empty storefronts which I’m sure will be filled this year. I think the main reason Crackers closed was because of Helium, a better run comedy club that brought in big names and did not hand out free tickets to their shows. Instead of blindly complaining about something actually go see it for yourself.
Imagine putting “freedom” in scare quotes and thinking you’re a respectable person.
Then again, there are people gormless enough to think a pandemic with a 99.8% survival rate is “raging”, that only the unvaxxed spread COVID (even the legacy media has had to take a loss on that falsehood), and that the rate of openings exceeds that of closures, most of which was initially spawned by the June ’20, riots, which even a staid publication like IBJ is too cowardly to call by its actual name. Businesses don’t shutter or after protests, Dave L.
I agree. Apart from the fact that retail is suffering as it is both in and out of the city. I’ve actually been surprised by all the new restaurants and hotels opening up downtown. Too bad Michael is too politically blind to see it.
Has there been any update or construction even started on the sugar factory where the old palomino was located?
Sorry haven’t been by that area in a while and just now saw the updated article in the Indy star from the first of november. Looking forward to when that opens.
I haven’t walked by in a while but I know the windows had the sugar factory signage all the way around the corner. I’m not sure if any construction is happening inside of it though.
I suspect the WWWoC (Woke World’s War on Comedy) has something to do with this club’s declining revenue as well. Comedy clubs worked great when any and every person and any and every topic could be the subject of a joke. Good comedians were funny when they were spontaneous and unpredictable.
Now, way too many comedians have to watch what they say at the risk of having themselves canceled and their careers destroyed by the distinctly humor-impaired totalitarians of the Woke Left. It’s why Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock won’t do college campuses anymore. It’s why people like Steven Colbert, who actually used to be funny, has morphed into a political hack dedicated to advancing a decidedly unfunny progressive party line.
Dave Chappelle has the chops and the financial wherewithal to survive the Woke crowd’s attacks, so he can riff where the spirit takes him (in other words, he’s funny). But the typical comedian who would perform at Crackers doesn’t have that luxury.
RIP Crackers. Indeed, increasingly, RIP comedy.
Respectfully, this is a common opinion, but it’s based on a very shallow understanding of the history of comedy. Maron #1278 (Kliph Nesteroff) does a thorough and succinct debunking of the idea that the “now” is different from the “then”.
See http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1278-canceled-comedy-w-kliph-nesteroff-and-david-bianculli
James T. ~ As the father of a graduate of the Conservatory program at the Second City in Chicago and who does improv and sketch shows as well as stand-up comedy in Chicago’s best-known clubs, I can assure that you could not be more wrong.
The opening of resteraunts isn’t indicative of vibrancy. I would argue it’s indicative of the low interest loans that have been available for quite some time. The hospitality and food service industries are ones that tend to canabalize. In sure they either won’t make it or others will close. You can’t sit here and argue that downtown is vibrant at the moment. Not compared to years past – and yes the downturn was noticeable before COVID hit. As someone who has an office downtown I see it everyday with my eyes. Considering most of the CBD is encompassed with a permanent TIF, and seemingly endless prop-up from the City, we really aren’t getting our monies worth.
Murray R. ~ Like claims of “voter fraud,” without evidence to support your assertions I will remain skeptical.
Erik D and Brent B, for everyone’s sake, I hope you are right and I am wrong.