2. You’re entire post implies a huge amount of ownership of the area. (I started opening certain types of bars so that’s the only type we can have from now on/ I moved into a building in a non-residential area so I now have a say over everything that happens there).

3. You assume that because your businesses don’t have many overtly violent incidents, that your places are totally benign. You make your living off getting people drunk and turning them loose on the city. There’s nothing you can do about this, people should have the right to drink all they want and business owners have the right to profit off it. There’s no way to know how many of YOUR customers have incidents of drunk driving, sexual violence, and domestic violence after leaving your bars but it’s something to think about before getting so judgmental.

PS- I agree that high school night is a really bad idea.

A couple final points @Marlon…

“And simply put, sneaky petes has every right to open where and when they want, especially if others have done so”
– No, no they don’t. They don’t because the others that were allowed to open there are not night clubs. They are not comparable establishments. They didn’t receive the kind of community opposition that would cause a zoning board to deny their request for a a variance. Precedent has not been set for night clubs in this area just because other places that serve alcohol are there.

“if the chance of violence is such that it merits their denial, then all of Albanys bars & clubs need to be closed! Its that simple!” No, no it’s not. Here’s why… the bars currently in the WD have a CHANCE that, at some point, a couple of drunk people get in to an arument. Maybe one of these dudes even throws a punch. That will be an extreme exception to the norm in the WD. But yes, there is that CHANCE. I’m willing to take that chance to be there. And, if enough people are…. Business…. open.

Sneaky Petes, which INCLUDES it’s parking lot, doesn’t have a CHANCE of violence, it most certainly has the SURETY of violence. If you think that’s not true, then regardless of where SP opens, I have a proposition for you. Every time trouble breaks out in the WD and the cops need to be called, I’ll pay you $1,000. We’ll call it a campaign contribution. In return, all I ask for is that for every time a cop gets called to respond to SP, you pay me $50. 20-1, but we all still know how it would turn out.

With that said, I definitely think Albany needs a real nightclub…one that doesn’t pose as a restaurant by day, just to clear out the tables and bring in a DJ at night. I just don’t think it belongs downtown, should be called Sneaky anything or be promoted to anyone with the word TEEN in their age.

Stop being so ignorant. Sheesh.