As reported on the Kitsap Entertainment blog, Slip 45 on Bay Street is closed for business. A one-line entry on their MySpace page confirms that the folks who were running the place have called it quits and “gone back to Cali.”
Slip 45 follows in the wake of J.A. Michael’s and Mako’s as has-beens at that location.
The establishment’s owners opened just over a year ago, having poured more than $80,000 into rennovations and vowing to distance themselves from Mako’s unsavory reputation for bar brawls.
In March, a bar fight at Slip 45 sent a 40-year-old man to Harborview, but Port Orchard Police Sgt. Dale Schuster said over-serving did not appear to be a factor.
Darryl Baldwin, owner of Moondogs Too across the street, said he understood Slip 45 had changed hands in the course of the year. The new owner told him that the recession had taken its toll. April was an especially brutal month.
Cmdr. Geoffrey Marti of the POPD said he also believed but could not confirm that finances were the cause of the closure.
“They really tried to keep a good reputation,” said Baldwin.
Moondogs has struggled with the economy but is hanging in there, he said. “We’re doing actually pretty good,” he said.
Righteous. Now there’s space for another bail bonds place. GOOOOOOOOOOOOAL.
Scott tried really hard. He wanted to create an upscale club. He hired cooks with backgrounds in fine dining, brought in world class comedy acts from the United States and Canada and offered a wide selection of bands, but the downturn in the economy struck hard. I wish him luck.