A downtown entertainment staple is on the market.
HermannB次元官网网址檚 Jazz Club at 751-753 View St. is listed at $4.5 million, with the advertisement reading that it could B次元官网网址渁ppeal to both an owner-occupier or to an investor/ developer.B次元官网网址�
The 15,000 sq. ft. property was built in 1920, and has been a jazz and live-music icon in the city since 1986, when German entrepreneur Hermann Nieweler moved his business over from the Bastion Inn on Government Street. The venue has been a hit ever since.
Nieweler passed away on June 10, 2015 and since then the business has been a under the ownership of his three children, who have carried different opinions on whether they wanted to sell or not.
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In the meantime, local jazz advocates and members of what was then known as the Jazz on View Society hoped to save the building and the business by buying the property. In 2017, the Nieweler children considered listing the property at $3 million, which the society fundraised for but fell well short of.
In July this year, the Jazz on View Society, now known as the Arts on View Society, fundraised more than $100,000 so it could take over management of the business. With funding in place, the Society has since gone to work booking shows and upgrading the building, with hopes of using both the upstairs and downstairs of the properties in the future.
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William B次元官网网址淏illB次元官网网址� Turner is the chair of the Arts on View Society, and said that as the managers theyB次元官网网址檝e been well aware that the property would eventually be listed.
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Presently the Society has a five-year lease on the building, something that Turner said would be difficult, but not impossible for a new owner to break.
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In the meantime, renovations will continue, as will bookings for many months ahead.
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Black Press reached out to the Niewelers, but did not hear back at the time of publication.
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