Jake Grod
The sound & size inside the venue is good, as well as the ability to view the stage easily while having access to the bar at the same time, but my friends and I missed like a quarter of the concert we were seeing because of how long it took for us to get ushered inside once we got into line. Because parking in the area is so awful (there wasn’t even an overpriced valet lot or anything near the venue we could pay for, so if you can’t get street or residential parking then finding a spot takes a long time, but if you do get there early enough at least parking is free or very cheap), we got in line with maybe 20 people ahead of us at about 8:20 for a show that had a listed start time at 8, which means we pretty much got there right after it started, and yet we weren’t even able to get inside the venue until like 8:45ish because for some reason the line didn’t even start moving until like 8:30 (which also seems unreasonable for the venue to start the concert while they’re still ushering a continuous line inside). Then even once we started being ushered inside there was an unnecessary amount of checkpoints that alone added like another 4-7 minutes for all of us. You have one person that checks your ID for alcohol, then another person who checks your ID for the will call tickets, and then someone who wands you down for security, and then another person who checks your ID for literally no discernible reason, and then you’re finally inside. Again, once you’re inside, pretty cool venue, and pretty easy view of the stage despite it fitting a decent amount of people inside. But, getting out of the venue also feels like a bit of a fire hazard as it’s unclear where the entrance or exit is, and once the show was over everyone sorta had to funnel out through a smaller corridor and down a flight of stairs past where the merch table was setup which meant that there was a lot of crowding around the table since it was right in front of the corridor to leave. I think it’s a cool venue but it doesn’t really seem setup to be an easy time for attendees to be able to easily and conveniently get to, in, and out of the venue.
