G’NIGHT: The Palm

San Diego Magazine — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:57:10 +0000

Park your car too long in Downtown and Ty Hauter will put a bar concept in it. Hauter’s company Good Time Design has emerged as one of the area’s most active nightlife architects—especially true on Block 16 (between 6th and 7th Streets and J & K Streets), where he already has a hand in Blind Burro, Moonshine Flats (replacing his concept, Block No. 16 Union & Spirits), Lucky’s Lunch Counter, Cat Eye Club, and Culy Warehouse. Now he and two partners have secured the prime corner spot at 6th & J, occupied for the last eight years by steakhouse chain The Palm. His partners in the collaboration have built their own come-as-you-are casual bar empires—Joe Vaught of Verant Group (True North, Tavern at the Beach, Sandbar, etc.) and Todd Brown (Bub’s Dive Bar).

When The Palm closes on Dec. 31, the trio will get to building out an upscale seafood restaurant with a raw bar/sushi bar. Focus is on a “social dining experience,” which has been the m.o. of other Good Time Design locations. The décor will reportedly have an old-school pier feel along the lines of Fisherman’s Wharf and Pike Place Market. For the best advance vision of what it’ll look and feel like, Hauter’s people point to Catch in NYC.

Projected open: early 2014.

The Palm’s last night will be Dec. 31.

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INCOMING: Moonshine Flats

San Diego Magazine — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 06:29:00 +0000

We reported last year that Good Time Design (the name of Ty Hauter’s group, which seems to own most of Downtown at this point) would finally build out the event space Culy Warehouse, putting in a Hogs N Heifers-like concept called Moonshine Flats. Now that’s changed. GTD is keeping Culy an events space and putting Moonshine Flats into the group’s other space around the corner on 7^th Street, replacing recently shuttered Block No. 16. With dance platforms everywhere, four bars (including an 80-footer that’s reportedly one of the longest in California), a second floor full of interactive games, a huge stage for bands, and an even bigger LED screen… Hauter’s group promises Moonshine to be an “in-your-face country rock and dance” establishment set to open in 2014. Flats will serve food, which you can presumably eat on the pick-up truck tailgates that will serve as seating. My star-spangled bikini just leapt from my closet writing that sentence.

Block No. 16 out, Moonshine Flats In

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