The longtime owner of Spinwho sold the nightclub in 2014, but still owns the building in which it was locatedwill be taking the space back, according to eater.com . He has not yet determined whether the nightclub at Belmont and Halsted will once again go under the Spin moniker, or have a new name, once it reopens.
David Gassman sold the 9,000 square-foot space to Jason Zilberbrand and Jordan Zabinger in mid-2014. They refashioned the nightclub into two new establishments: a whiskey distillery and small-plates restaurant called Whiskey Trust and a dance club called Chloe's.
"We are bringing something to this neighborhood that doesn't exist right now. We think we are going to be the blueprint for this area going forward," Zilberbrand told Windy City Times in June.
But Zilberbrand and Zabinger were almost immediately beset by financial difficulties. They brought in LKH Management, which runs several other Halsted establishments, to manage the businesses in late August. The following month, Chloe's was briefly shuttered and reopened as a new incarnation of the bar Manhole. Both Whiskey Trust and Manhole were out of business by December.
Gassman told eater.com that he is taking the space back because Zilberbrand and Zabinger stopped paying rent. He added that a city inspection was scheduled for mid-March and that the space was tentatively planned for re-opening in mid-April.
"It's definitely going to be a nightclub...whether it's called Spin or something else," Gassman said.
Eater.com's story is at http://chicago.eater.com/2015/3/5/8158581/spin-nightclub-return-boystown.