Thursday, August 7, 2008
The controversial downtown nightclub Last Call has officially lost its lease now that an eviction lawsuit has been settled, an attorney on the case said Thursday.
Terence Leibold, an attorney for the owners of the nightclub building at 729 N.H., confirmed that the company that operated Last Call is no longer a tenant of the building. He said a settlement was reached between the building’s owners — the Park Hetzel III Trust — and the nightclub company, which is operated by Dennis Steffes.
“The case was resolved to both parties’ satisfaction,” Leibold said.
Leibold said he was not at liberty to discuss any other terms of the settlement.
An attempt to reach an attorney for the nightclub company — Tremors Inc. — was not successful.
The eviction case had been scheduled to go to trial on Thursday. The eviction proceedings began after a Feb. 10 incident in which three people were shot and injured outside the club. The February incident was preceded by a May 2006 incident in which seven shots were fired inside the club, although no one was injured in that shooting.
After the February shootings, Steffes voluntarily closed the club and said he would not reopen it. But he fought the eviction proceedings because he said he may want to open another type of business in the location or sublease the property to someone else.
Comments
Anonymous nobody1793 says...
Someone should open a dance club there.
Posted 7 August 2008, 11:31 a.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous consumer1 says...
Good riddance to bad trash ! Dennis the menace.
Posted 7 August 2008, 11:34 a.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous The_Original_Bob says...
Racism!!!
Posted 7 August 2008, 11:47 a.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous supercowbellninja says...
will be interesting to see what goes in there next - that whole block of shops seems like under-utilized real estate space, epsecially being right off Mass. and across from the lofts.
Posted 7 August 2008, 11:59 a.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous juscin3 says...
There was a dance club there back in 93'. Used to go there all the time, fun place to hang out. I think other places opened up then and it caused the business to go out.
Posted 7 August 2008, 12:18 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous consumer1 says...
O Bob, you are not commenting on my statement are you?? Because I am referring to Dennis Steffes The ex -owner. Or are you commenting that it closed because of racism?
Posted 7 August 2008, 12:40 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous invictus says...
Who cares? Just shout "racism" everytine there something that doesn't register in your liberal brain washed head, right. Racism! It's kind of fun.
Posted 7 August 2008, 12:55 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous TheSychophant says...
Anyone who cries "racism" is a meely-mouthed pansy ass so-called "liberal" whom, if living during the height of the civil rights movment would have been too scared to particpate, but who now claims "enlightenment." These "politically correct" folks are simply unable to think for themselves, and view gansta rap as "progressive black culture" rather than the nihilistism, violence and misognoy it actually stands.
There is nothing redemptive about the out-of-town thugs who hung out at the Last Call. Calling Last Call opponents "racists" is simply "reverse race hustling."
And Dennis Steffes never gave a damn about his clientel. He just liked their money.
Posted 7 August 2008, 1:33 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous northtown says...
Maybe he will find another building and bring back tremors???????????
Posted 7 August 2008, 1:52 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous not_dolph says...
Where will "spiderman" go now?
Posted 7 August 2008, 2:13 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous The_Original_Bob says...
Consumer1 -
No, no. Not at all. Just predicting the reaction from a certain segment of the LJ World website commenters. It's sort of like Invictus said... just yell Racism a lot and flail your arms and surely someone will listen.
Posted 7 August 2008, 2:23 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous dweezil222 says...
Amazing! Last Call is closed, and yet crime still occurs in Lawrence! Shocking, I know.
Posted 7 August 2008, 2:24 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous stuckinthemiddle says...
as predictable as these cries of racism are claimed to be it ought to be easy enough for you folks making the claim to round up some examples... I’d be interested in seeing them…
because, I read a lot of the comments here at the LJW and I really haven't seen many cries of racism...
but... I have seen quite a few claims of cries of racism...
Posted 7 August 2008, 3:05 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous igby says...
I must be a racist then!
Guns,
Drugs,
Violence,
Shooting minors,
Letting minors in to drink liquor,
Rolling gun battles on I-70 and K-10,
yep!
I'm a racist!
Peace is good.
Peace of mind is even better!
Posted 7 August 2008, 3:17 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous stuckinthemiddle says...
igby
how would that make you a racist? unless you’re racist against whites...
the absolute worst of that kind of thing in this town happen a couple months back and I believe all involved were white...
two dead and a minor in custody charged with two murders...
Posted 7 August 2008, 3:23 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous logicsound04 says...
Equally predictable to the cries of "racism" (which oddly have yet to surface...) is the bleeting of statements against some preconcieved and misguided notion of "liberals"
Thanks invictus and Sycophant, you ignorant tools!
Posted 7 August 2008, 4:02 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous autie says...
It seems every time I see racism come up in a thread, good ole invictus is not far behind. Coincidence?
Posted 7 August 2008, 4:27 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous bearded_gnome says...
logicsound04
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Anonymous)
says…
Equally predictable to the cries of “racism” (which oddly have yet to surface…) is the bleeting of statements against some preconcieved and misguided notion
of “liberals”
Thanks invictus and Sycophant, you ignorant tools!
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no! I say the Last Call was a "false flag" violence operation Dennis was operating...uh, ... to distract us all from ... eh ... well ...um ...oh, [jumps up and down] to distract us all from the scandal of the T! yeah, that's it!
and, just how do people jump down after jumping up?
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heard ol' denny talking about putting *another club* into that space!
yeah, it'll be a green tea bar, with the strongest thing being a mango "health drink!"
oh d--n, I guess I'm a racist for criticizing the ol' Last Call! nobody is allowed to criticize that kinda club/its music! no!
Posted 7 August 2008, 5:10 p.m. Suggest removal
Ryan Greene rgreene says...
I feel like there should be a downtown grocery store. That would be ideal.
Posted 7 August 2008, 5:26 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous TheSychophant says...
No, logicsound, you are the ignorant tool. I was arrested at a sit- in during the civil rights movement way before you were born. My family members were the only white folks present. We did not consider ourselves liberals. We were, and still are, radicals.
And if you read above, the original_bob yelled "racism," and although it may have merely been a sarcastic comment, if you have half a brain, you would remember the numerous cries of racism from so called liberals when the city first began dealing with the Last Call problem.
No, we are not the tools. We are the toolmakers. You're just too ignorant to learn the lessons of history and use the tools we created for you correctly.
Posted 7 August 2008, 6:40 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous Guardian says...
I think it was just a conspiracy on the part of the police department to grab the land and put a substation there.
Posted 7 August 2008, 6:43 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous Quigly says...
Topeka sounds like a nice town. Maybe it will go there
Posted 7 August 2008, 6:58 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous BigPrune says...
Flea market anyone? Or, how about second hand store? It can be anything but nice and expensive. Hobbs has sat empty for over 5 years and it's nice and expensive, so, I say, antique mini mall? Storefront church?
Is downtown REALLY that great for a business?
Posted 7 August 2008, 7:24 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous logicsound04 says...
bearded_gnome: Come again? Did YOU even understand what you wrote?
Posted 7 August 2008, 8:59 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous logicsound04 says...
“I was arrested at a sit- in during the civil rights movement way before you were born. My family members were the only white folks present. We did not consider ourselves liberals. We were, and still are, radicals.”—sycophant
––––—
Oh excuse me. I didn't realize I was speaking to a participant in the sit-ins. And clairvoyant to boot—how do you have any idea how old I am? I was helping former slaves escape the South on the Underground Railroad when your daddy was a twinkle in your granddaddy's eye. :-)
But in all seriousness, I'm not claiming that Last Call's closing is “racist”. I was taking issue with what I thought was you demonizing liberal ideology.
Upon re-reading your post, it seems I misunderstood your point. I apologize—I get so used to baseless attacks that I get a little knee-jerk crazy. Sorry.
Posted 7 August 2008, 9 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous nobody1793 says...
On second thought, let's put a really small Wal-Mart in there!
Posted 7 August 2008, 9:02 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous JayCat_67 says...
"Who cares? Just shout “[liberal]” everytime there's something that doesn't register in your [wing-nut] brain washed head, right. [liberal!] It's kind of fun."
Neato!
Posted 7 August 2008, 10:21 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous bearded_gnome says...
OMG!
Loggy didn't get my sarcasm, either that, or he's already forgotten how he single-handed solved the attacks on the Santa Cruz scientists! if it is the latter, Loggy is really not firing on all his cylindars!
let me spell it out, I'll even type extra slow. I was taking your autistic logic Loggy from the other thread, and applying it to the violence that went on at Last Call. it was highlighting just how silly you really look.
Guardian obviously got it!
I think it was just a conspiracy on the part of the police department to grab the land and put a substation there.
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I think we need a totally new business in that space: there's no Hooters in town; or, an old fashioned taxi dancing establishment? another possibility could be to make it a large shooting range, gun and knife club. it could have "ladies' nights; contests; shooting competitions; rhythmic shooting, where the shooter shoots with the beat of music, like Rap; and it could have a liquor license too just to keep things hopping!
now, there's a great idea!
Posted 7 August 2008, 11:11 p.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous logicsound04 says...
bg,
What other thread? Seriously, you aren't making sense. I haven't made any comments on the thread about the anthrax attacks.
Are you confusing me with logrithmic?
Posted 8 August 2008, 12:15 a.m. Suggest removal
Anonymous logicsound04 says...
I am no conspiracy theorist. Logrithmic, on the other hand, occasionally sees "larger forces" at work.
Posted 8 August 2008, 12:17 a.m. Suggest removal
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