This is pretty funny.
Recall that in March Daddy’s bar and grease pit up and died in the same Uptown spot that previously killed City Tavern, Twist, and Palladian Bistro Lounge. Now the Uptown paper of record’s Paid to Party gal relates that Coyote Ugly is ready to claim the 6000-sq. foot space in the old Ivey’s building.
The chain of faux biker sleaze — think Hooter’s with belly shots and bar-top booty-shakin’ — currently resides on North College, just a few blocks away from the planned new locale. Once moved, however, the gals at Coyote Ugly would be within spitting distance of the offices of Charlotte Center City Partners. And CCCP does not like that. Oh no.
One of those magic CCCP letters went out yesterday declaring that, “”We emphatically agree that this is the wrong location for this business type. The potentially loud and boisterous interior and exterior noise generated by a bar of this type would greatly disturb residents.”
In other words, some very power people in the Ivey’s building condos decided they liked the peace and quiet since Daddy’s demise. Either that or they are prudes put off by the whole trashy vibe of the joint.
But we know that cannot be true because just the other week CCCP honcho Michael Smith was telling us how cosmopolitan and progressive are urban-dwelling betters truly are. So maybe condo residents are not the muscle behind the complaint.
That could only mean that some other grand plan must be in the works for the space — one that the normal ebb and flow of the commercial real estate cannot hope to grasp.
Update: CBJ has a blurb as well.
