If Sam Asad gets his way, the space most recently known as The Library Club, 1905 E. North Ave., will be a new bar and music venue that would allow 18-20-year-old college students to attend shows.
Asad, who owns Envy, 715 S. 5th St., will attend a hearing at City Hall on Tuesday morning to request a Performing Arts License (in addition to the Class B & Premise Entertainment License) which would allow him to admit underage adults to his yet-to-be-named new venue.
If granted the license, Asad says the venue would have a wristband system to identify the under-aged concert-goers and a highly trained staff that would receive a bonus if they caught underage drinkers.
In decades past, underage shows were common but have become much less frequent in recent years. What are your thoughts on this? Do college students need more places to hang out or is this just asking for trouble?
Stay tuned to OnMilwaukee.com for more information about the new venue when it becomes available.
New information became available since the time of this post. Sam Asad says the license request was rescheduled for a later meeting.
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