Mayor Wharton says he’d like to see 380 Beale, currently the home of Club Crave and formerly the home of the Plush Club, shut down for good. The club is at the northeast corner of Beale and Fourth, just outside the Beale Entertainment District. There has been a pattern of shootings and stabbings in and around the club dating back to the mid-1990s. Both mayor and nearby merchants think the club may be “cursed” and that no business that operates there can escape the pattern of violence. ABC 24 has more here.
I have to agree. When Plush was shut down, the plan was to make it a family-style Jamaican restaurant. That never happened (or if it did, it happened so briefly that many people never even knew the restaurant was open). Within months it was back to thugs and guns. I think 380 Beale would make a beautiful parking lot, and I applaud our mayor for taking what is surely a controversial stance in regard to this building.