Borderline Grill Thousand Oaks Open Again
The Deadline Bar & Grill in Chiliad Oaks may very well turn out to exist another casualty of the COVID-nineteen pandemic.
The country music dance club has been closed for two years, e'er since a mass shooting in that location by a alone gunman on Nov. 7, 2022 resulted in the deaths of 12 people.
To the please of the local land music scene, Deadline co-owners Brian Hynes and Troy Hale appear a few weeks after the showtime ceremony of the tragedy that they would be re-opening the club.
But in March, the Earth Health Organization alleged a global COVID-xix pandemic, resulting in widespread business shutdowns, including in California, to try to finish the spread of the deadly virus.
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Hynes said in a recent interview that given the closures, nightclubs included, information technology'due south questionable whether to spend considerable amounts of money to rebuild the Borderline in lodge to hopefully re-open up it someday if the state allows.
Ventura County is currently in the second most restrictive tier – the crimson tier – of the state's 4-level COVID-19 reopening plan under which local nightclubs must remain closed.
Thus, Hynes noted, even if the mass shooting hadn't occurred, the Borderline would still exist shuttered for the foreseeable time to come due to the pandemic.
"How are you going to put a million dollars or two one thousand thousand dollars into an 11,000-square-pes building to rebuild information technology if you don't know when you can or cannot re-open it with no end in sight to this pandemic?" he said.
Nightclubs could be allowed to re-open up in the future if the state continues to open up back upwardly.
Hynes said some other factor weighing against rebuilding the Borderline is that the shutdown orders have slammed his and Hale's sources of income – their new land music dance club in Agoura Hills, the BL Dancehall & Saloon, and their events company, Homegrown Events. Both take substantially been closed since March.
"COVID is a huge factor," he said. "If COVID hadn't happened, and then we'd accept a state of affairs where we'd take different income. We'd take some coin to spend to prepare the place up."
Hynes said he and Hale plan to make a Deadline re-opening decision afterward the second anniversary of the shooting, noting that their charter for the space at 99 Rolling Oaks Drive is upward in December.
"Right now, we don't know if it volition reopen or non," he said.
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New Agoura Hills social club
Hynes seems more focused these days on re-opening the new social club at 29020 Agoura Road.
The BL in its name stands for Deadline and at one point in the interview, he even referred to the Yard Oaks club as "the old Borderline."
The new venue, he said, opened Jan. 24, merely airtight just weeks afterwards in March due to the COVID-19 restrictions.
"We did very, very well during the one month we were open," he said.
While the inside of the club, including dancing, is shut downwards, the patio remains open, serving customers dinner on Fridays and Saturdays from 5-x p.thou., he said. That's allowed nether the restrictions.
Hynes said he'southward been working with a company that would provide COVID-19 tests for his patrons with results in 3 minutes. Given that, he said he hopes to convince the state to permit him re-open the club's indoor dance floor.
All patrons would need to accept the test prior to entry, he said. Anyone testing positive obviously would not exist admitted.
"We've been working with the country to try go some kind of blessing to exist able to re-open using this examination," he said.
Hynes asked that the company not exist identified for at present.
"Although I truly believe this is a very scary pandemic and I truly believe nosotros did the right matter by shutting everything down temporarily, we can open the economy back up with this exam," he said.
"Shutting things down has ruined then many lives," he said. "Then many people are out of work. Then many people take to stay home. And I recollect that was never factored in when they started shutting the economy down."
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Shooting 'ever on my mind'
Reflecting on the approaching 2d anniversary of the shooting, Hynes said the pandemic has non distracted him from thinking well-nigh information technology, as might exist expected.
It'southward actually had the opposite upshot, he said.
"It's taken away the one thing that distracted me, which was to bring happiness to people" with his new dance club, he said.
The shooting "is always on my heed," Hynes said, likening information technology to the death of his female parent last year. "I think near it every day. I talk about it every 24-hour interval."
Has the emotional pain lessened in the terminal ii years?
"It depends," he said. "I notwithstanding take my triggers."
But some days are better than others, he said.
"Yes, absolutely," Hynes said. "More expert than bad.
"So as long as yous think all the proficient things (almost the original Deadline), I remember somewhen the bad will go abroad," he said.
Mike Harris covers the cities of Moorpark, Simi Valley, Yard Oaks and Ventura, also as transportation countywide. You tin can contact him at mike.harris@vcstar.com or 805-437-0323.
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