Plaza Businesses Face Uncertainty as Closing Looms
Beyond UCF, Campus Beat, Entertainment, Hot Topics, Movies & TV, News, Night Life — By Jake Rakoci on June 30, 2012 at 2:44 pm TweetShops in the plaza including Scoop, Knight Library, and Lit Smoke Shop face the possibility of closing down for good as the September 30th plaza closing dates approaches.
Knightnews.com went to the plaza to try and talk to business owners and see if there is going to be a “Plaza 2.0″ or if the businesses will be signing leases to new locations. One employee of Lit Smoke Shop told us that everyone is not sure about what they are going to do.
This leaves a huge hole in the nightlife culture UCF has developed in the Plaza, where one can go to three bars, grab food, and go to a hookah lounge all within 100 yards of each other. As of now, there has not been any sources indicated the plaza will be completely relocating to a new area.
El Cerro, the mexican restaurant is currently the only confirmed business to have a place to relocate to. Watch the video below to find out:
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I have been going to Library and Fubar since I was 16 (now 21). Although, the places are trashy and falling apart, there are so many memories and fun times. It is going to be so sad when they bulldoze this plaze
I really hope they rebuild Fubar somewhere else at least because I still do go there. And as for the employees, I went last night and none of them were rude or nasty. Yes they’re pissed about losing their jobs, but they are were getting drunk and making the best of it! Long live Fubar <3
Apparently, one of the bars from the plaza is moving across the street right behind dell taco. It is going to be located were the Day Care used to be. It is in the same strip where wingzone and pita pit are located.
The bars there are sooooo much slower since the media reported they are getting shut down September 1st. Its not fun anymore, no big crowds and the workers are all depressed and angry. I got yelled at and shoved by a bouncer at fubar because I was in the doorway when he was walking through. These people are very stressed knowing they will be unemployed so I just felt sorry for him, even though he shouldnt put his hands on a woman. I think they should be a little nicer to the few customers that they have left an make the best of it. Life goes on, you will get a new job!