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Even Cool Nightclubs Fail — Here’s How the Strongest Survive

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Romero cut his teeth working at Peter Gatien ’s legendary clubs, learning the intricate details that make a nightclub run at Limelight, Tunnel, Club USA, and Palladium (now NYU’s Palladium Hall dormitory), before taking that experience to countless other successful ventures. How can you save a nightclub?

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What Does the Future Hold for Downtown LA as a Cocktail Destination?

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Meieran opened his post-industrial steampunk nightclub The Edison in 2007 in the basement power plant of the Higgins Building. He followed up in 2010 by purchasing Broadway landmark Clifton’s Cafeteria, turning the space that famously inspired Disneyland into an ambitious multi-floor nightlife destination. “It It’s perception.”