52nd City

New Life for the Double Bogey ...

Okay, I can't say I went into the Double Bogey a lot. In fact, I think I was in there exactly twice (but girls with glasses look out of place in sports clubs, even little neighborhoodish sports in South City). But to see the place empty - just a door down off South Grand, 3613 Juniata to be exact - bummed me out. As a resident of the neighborhood, it pains me to see *any* empty storefronts. After the Bogey closed, there was rumor that it was going to be a pet shop. A friend threatened to open a steak house there. And then it sat and sat, with no apparent prospects on the horizon.

Then, a few weeks ago, I saw some guys tinkering with the pipes out back. I didn't want to be too hopeful, because tinkering with water pipes might just mean one of 'em had busted during the cold weather. But lo and behold, on the morning before our "Stuff" party at Snowflake a few weeks ago, I was sitting in a chair at Verve, getting a badly needed haircut, when I learned that there was a new tenant slated to move into the space. That tenant, in fact, is Verve! They should be in the new space long before the spring thaw, though I don't have an exact date (but I have another haircut scheduled for February 10, so I am assuming they will be in the new digs by then). So let your hair grow a little long around your collar and welcome them to their new corner by sitting in a chair and getting a haircut ... or an eyebrow tweeze, as the case may be. No word yet as to what will be going into the Verve space on South Grand, but I do know that the street-facing storefronts will probably be easier to fill than the little side pocket space on Juniata. So ... things are on the move over here in lovely Tower Grove East.