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Circle Bar on Lee Circle has been sold
Posted on 9/13/16 at 7:11 pm
Posted on 9/13/16 at 7:11 pm
Just saw this on the Library Chronicles blog. Future seems grim for the Circle Bar...
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So here's a little scoop via The Lens this afternoon. An LLC registered to Phyllis Taylor bought the Circle Bar. Phyllis, as many of you know, is the filthy wealthy widow of oilman Pat Taylor whose name famously accrues to the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students or T.O.P.S. scholarship. Phyllis is also a primary benefactor of the Greater New Orleans Foundation and its nearly completed shimmering new headquarters on the opposite side of Lee Circle from the bar.
Can't say for certain what the plans are, but the smart money is on RIP, Circle Bar at the very least. As far as the building is concerned, they shouldn't have too much trouble getting a demolition permit since every New Orleans oligarch who is anybody is in the GNOF club. Oh also Andy Kopplin runs it now so, yeah.
Still waiting on somebody to do something about that monument, though...
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Circle Bar Sold
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So here's a little scoop via The Lens this afternoon. An LLC registered to Phyllis Taylor bought the Circle Bar. Phyllis, as many of you know, is the filthy wealthy widow of oilman Pat Taylor whose name famously accrues to the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students or T.O.P.S. scholarship. Phyllis is also a primary benefactor of the Greater New Orleans Foundation and its nearly completed shimmering new headquarters on the opposite side of Lee Circle from the bar.
Can't say for certain what the plans are, but the smart money is on RIP, Circle Bar at the very least. As far as the building is concerned, they shouldn't have too much trouble getting a demolition permit since every New Orleans oligarch who is anybody is in the GNOF club. Oh also Andy Kopplin runs it now so, yeah.
Still waiting on somebody to do something about that monument, though...
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Circle Bar Sold
This post was edited on 9/13/16 at 7:33 pm
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Posted on 9/13/16 at 7:12 pm to NumberSix
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Still waiting on somebody to do something about that monument, though...
frick that author.
Posted on 9/13/16 at 7:12 pm to NumberSix
Oh snap
Posted on 9/13/16 at 7:20 pm to NumberSix
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they shouldn't have too much trouble getting a demolition permit
Would be a damn shame
Posted on 9/13/16 at 7:26 pm to NumberSix
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Still waiting on somebody to do something about that monument, though...
This has zero to do with the selling of the space. What bad journalism.
Posted on 9/13/16 at 7:32 pm to fightin tigers
I guess it has been more than ten years since Kelly Keller passed away, don't even know who is running the place these days or doing the booking - but it is still a damn good place. Really hope this doesn't mean the end but hard to imagine the buyers will want to keep the place as it has been.
This post was edited on 9/13/16 at 8:15 pm
Posted on 9/13/16 at 7:48 pm to NumberSix
That place IIRC was part of the original farmstead that ws there owned by the Tivoli family.
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The old house above (barely visible in the preceding 1920 photo, next to the old Bienville Hotel), is said to have started life as a country home before the city grew up around it. As you can see from the current picture above, it's still standing - a fortunate survivor in an area where so many of the old houses fell victim to the wrecking ball.
LINKThis post was edited on 9/13/16 at 7:54 pm
Posted on 9/13/16 at 8:23 pm to Napoleon
Was one of my favorite haunts back when I was living there. RIP
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