About six weeks ago the owner of The New Brookland Tavern (Mike Lyons) announced that two months prior the owner of the building had informed him of his intention to sell the building the listing price being $775K. The club's sound technician and booking agent Carlin Thompson has since started a GoFundMe in order to either save the club (not happening) or to help defray costs in the event of relocation. The fundraising effort has so far generated nearly $38K but has stalled.

Over the weekend word spread that a buyer for the property had been found and although neither official nor named one can assume it's a developer whose almost certain intention is to raze the dilapidated building. Also unofficial is that the club will be allowed to remain open through the end of the year.

Thompson has been on social media announcing that they're looking to move the venue to Five Points in hopes that they will attract foot traffic which IMO is a bad idea due to terrible parking access, congestion, and crime. Maybe they lasted a quarter century due to the fact that they were not in Five Points or the vista.

In any case, it's the end of an era.

Yeah, moving to Five Points will be the nail in that coffin.  Most of the folks going to NBT don't want to be in Five Points, or the Vista, with that trash.  The residents around Five Points and Columbia politicians are actively trying their best to drive out all of the bars so that just makes that idea seem all the more weird.

While at the Cro-Mags show three weeks ago I got to take a really good look at the building and there is no damn way the buyer's going to invest in the massive improvements that will need to be made to bring the venue up to snuff. It's a tear-down. Coming soon: another Starbucks or Panera.

NBT announced that they're moving to The Cotton Gin's former location at 632 Harden St.

(the old Five Points theater)

I'm not wading a half mile each way through this shit:

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Maybe they can make it work, the cotton gins not a bad venue. A little disappointed, but I also haven’t been there in forever.

End of an era.  I haven't been to a show there in over a decade, but I have zero faith in things working out in Five Points; different crowd, different environment, etc.

Can you imagine going to see a gig there on a Friday or Saturday night esp. after a football game or other mass event?

It may very well be that the reason NBT lasted as long as it did in their current location was due to the fact that they weren't in 5 Points or the vista. Even under the best of circumstances when a music venue such as this moves they close.

NBT's sound technician/booking agent Carlin Thompson has from the start been dismissive of any suggestion that they stay in W. Columbia citing the desire to attract a younger crowd (foot traffic). Well, he's the fucking expert, I guess.

As I am disabled there is no damn way I'm parking blocks away and navigating through sidewalks packed with college drunks, panhandlers, crackheads, and thugs. Of course I'm in the tiny minority but not exactly alone in my opinion. Of course, the older patrons not on board have been largely silent and they'll remain so. They simply will not patronize the new location.

City of Columbia won't let them have a business license for a bar in 5 points. They're still working hard to kill a couple that are there for the new redevelopment plan. I think the buildings on State St are being bought for development into moar student housing. Sucks, but that's what's happening with a LOT of property now.

Is there a news story on this? Or an assumption based on the actions of The Harpootlian Gang?