At last night’s economic development meeting at Tremont West, Will Hollingsworth received 100-percent approval to go ahead with his plans to build out Spotted Owl. At last week’s block club meeting, the project received 96-percent approval, thus clearing the way for the bar’s liquor license transfer.
“Now that I’ve got the neighborhood’s blessing, I’m really excited to get this thing built and have a cocktail party,” Hollingsworth said.
For the past two and a half years, Hollingsworth has tended bar at Lolita, where he has been dreaming of designing the “perfect neighborhood bar.” Located on the lower-level of the Tremont Place Lofts at W. 7th and Jefferson, formerly the Union Gospel Press building, the Spotted Owl will accommodate approximately 100 guests, more including a patio.
With the lion’s share of work yet to come, Hollingsworth hopes to have the bar open before the end of the year.
“It’s the best I can do, honestly,” he adds regarding the ETA.
*photo courtesy of Bob Perkoski
This article appears in Mar 6-12, 2013.
Thats pretty freaken cool!
Mazel tov!
Please tell me why we need yet another bar in Tremont.
Oh and great neighborhood bars don’t get designed; they just are. Why the need to try and manufacture authenticity?
Oh no! An area of Cleveland is developing further and new businesses are opening! This is HORRIBLE NEWS!!! AAHHHH$&^@#&^&@&^ (runs screaming into the street)
Seriously though, I’m glad that he gets his chance to open up his own bar, and I wish him the best of luck and success.
“Great neighborhood bars don’t get designed; they just are.”
Yes, but are they not the product of some intelligent designer, some Newtonian “barmaker,” if you will? I can’t really say why we need another bar in Tremont, Casandra, but judging by your perm, I can safely say we need a few more hair salons. Or perhaps your transcendental theory of restaurant architecture applies to hair salons as well.