Club Reign hopefully stalled again
Amy Wenk of Midtown Patch has just released an article about the latest developments of SPI Club / Club Reign, or whatever they may change it to next. We have linked it below, but in a nutshell:
At last we have some good news regarding SPI Club, now known as Club Reign. It looks like the owners missed their deadline for opening their business and must now start all over again, based on the findings of the attorneys for the Daniels Corporation that promises to litigate to the very end.
We are hoping that would mean that they will have to reapply, and repeat all the hearings by the neighborhood, the NPU, and ultimately License Review Board (LRB). Then they would have to wait up to 90 days the Mayor’s signature before opening. This would take several months.
Needless to say, we will need your support at each of these steps along the way. Written support is always good, but you must also be prepared to appear at each of the hearings. We will keep you informed as we get further information about Club Vision/SPI Club (or whatever its future names will be).
- Midtown Patch: Developer Challenges Opening of Club
Midtown Patch: Developer Challenges Opening of Club Reign
MPSA Mailbag 4/22/2011
What the neighbors are telling us. As always, these do not necessarily reflect MPSA position…
#1 - I just called the cops to report a man and woman smoking crack on Kennesaw Ave on my neighbors steps. I told them that they couldn’t do that in front of my house; they were belligerent toward me and continued to light up. This man has approached my husband and me on separate occasions to hassle us for: money, cigarettes and condoms. I have also seen him peeing on our sidewalk. On at least one occasion he seemed too high to comprehend us, and after we chased him off, he came to our house that evening, rang the doorbell and begged for money. We called the cops. When I saw him today: he is African-American, fairly tall, wearing a black jacket, and a black baseball cap with white piping. He was with a white woman with brown, shoulder length hair wearing a brown coat with fur around the hood. I have seen her soliciting on Ponce. They each had their own crack pipe.
#2 – 689 Myrtle has been vacant for quite some time, but I have only recently noticed signs of vagrant camping on the property. There are two shopping carts parked in the yard and when my husband and I walked up the driveway, we could see pans of food scraps, utensils and bedding laying on the porch. Could you have the officers check the property more thoroughly to see if people have broken in? Also, does MPSA have the owners’ information to tell them to come clean up the mess? MPSA NOTE: The house in question was showing early signs of vagrant/squatter activity. Sgt. Cooper removed some bedding and a shopping cart, and no further activity has been noted.
#3 – As I am waiting at red light on Spring Street I was staring off to the right as I was holding a cigarette out the window. Suddenly a vagrant walking by snatched it out of my hand. While the police do not have time for this sort of thing, I have the impression that the next person this individual catches texting at a red light will lose an iPhone…
HERE COME THE HOOLIGANS!
The Gidewons received their liquor license from the state, and plan to open their overwhelming nightclub in May on Peachtree Street.
More at Midtown Patch: http://midtown.patch.com/articles/controversial-club-reign-to-open-in-may
Street Criminal: Daniel Lee Holt
One attentive neighbor noticed on their home security cameras a white male carrying a gray bag, a laptop, and another object. Very shortly afterwards they found out that a neighbor had just come home and discovered they had just been burglarized. A detective backing up the responding officer recognized the suspect as Daniel Lee Holt, an area street criminal with a long history.
Officers patrolled the neighborhood intensively in search of Holt, and found him later in the shift getting out of a car on Durant Place. Holt has been hanging around in the neighborhood for quite some time. Holt was booked into the Fulton County jail, and remains there as of this writing.
His extensive history includes weapon offenses, burglary, drugs, and related. He has scores of convictions, and the Department of Corrections shows three short periods of incarceration in the prison system.
Below are mugshot from the Fulton Sheriff’s Department
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