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Sep 26, 2025 at 1:52 pm
Last month, new owners purchased the long-running Belltown venue, then suddenly closed for repairs and updates. Impacted employees and artists are pissed. But is this new ownership a good thing?
Joe Mabel
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I never understand why people are mad at the new owners in situations like this. Be mad at the old owners who knew for MONTHS that they were going to sell the place and didn't tell anyone even though they saw them constantly and continued to book events and shows knowing that they were going to sell... not the people who bought it and are going to seemingly take much better care of it.
@tbass1981 seriously. The former owners were the employers and the bookers, and the new owners can't legally just jump into operating. It has nothing to do with them being "green" and everything to do with the former owner's decision on how to (not) communicate around their business and sale.
There's a colloquial term in software called "a smell," which is when you make code that seems clever or efficient, but actually belies bad practice, substandard skill, and potential for problems.
And it definitely seems like quite "a smell" that two people in the arts scene who want to support the arts scene and open an arts supporting venue..... decided to resort to generative AI, the sworn enemy of the artist world.