Thomas Bruch Journal famous person leisure reporter thomasbruch

PEORIA — The thumping beats and flashing lights at one of Downtown’s nighttime clubs will go darkish for the following couple of months to make method for a renovation and change of name.

Berlin, one of a collection of nightclubs and bars within the 600 block of the main street, closed after the membership’s New 12 months Eve bash and may continue to be so over the next two to 3 months, in line with owner Ty Seibert.

a good way to permit a wide-ranging renovation to occur in the constructing for an owner in the hunt for a a little bit new direction.

“It’s time for a metamorphosis,” Seibert mentioned.

Seibert is envisioning a Hawaiian-Tiki theme for the bar and, for now, spoke of it can be referred to as the Lava Tiki Lounge.

The impetus for the new thought contains the bar being inaugurate greater commonly and more available to an older crowd — Berlin was inaugurate simplest from 10 p.m. to four a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. The re-opened region will launch previous in the nighttime for five days every week and may at last boast slot machines and maybe kitchen provider further down the line.

“We wish to target an older crowd,” Seibert talked about.

however the late-nighttime membership ambiance received’t utterly go away. Seibert spoke of that around midnight, the song will transition to healthy a dance membership atmosphere and may still be originate until the early hours of the morning.

construction is already underway inside the club while local artist Jessica Benassi-McGhee is in the midst of painting several parts of the indoors. once the all the time profitable New 12 months’s Eve wrapped up, Seibert desired to buy competencies of a slower month and kit up for spring.

“January is all the time the toughest month in the bar company,” Seibert noted.

Berlin debuted within the late embers of 2012 as a membership concentrated on electronic dance tune following a complete renovation effort. SOP’s changed into the name of the bar earlier than Berlin, and the house has been a revolving door of bar and lounge tenants for a couple of many years.

Berlin changed ownership after the dying of its old proprietor, Todd Scholl, who turned into stabbed to demise in October 2013.