What requirements need to be fufilled to open a nightclub?
I am going to a college town in a few weeks to start school. Its Warrensburg, MO, otherwise called the King of Suitcase Cities, everyone simply goes home on the weekends due to the lack of entertainment venues. The local nightlife consists of a few bars, but all of them are full of old people who just crush any attempt to listen to popular music or dance in a style that is not akin to a ho-down.
In other words, this place desperately needs some nightlife injected into it. Empty warehouse style buildings abound, and being the most common kind of building a nightclub opens in, I thought it’d be a good idea to open one. Labor and the DJ can be pulled from the 10,000 or more students on campus. The building would be easy to rent or own.
But, of course, there are some problems. For one, I have no idea what kind of liscensing I’d need. Alcohol definitely, but then what about the music? Is there a fee to use it? And what kind of startup costs are we talking?
You need many things. Just to name a few- you need to lease a place, buy all the permits and stuff, an alcohol license, which I might add in Los Angeles County (California) is about $150,000…
Call your local business bureau. You can look it up on the cities or counties website.
You can’t just go take over a building- it’s called trespassing. For music fees, you mean to play songs? No, unless you use them in a commercial or something.
It would be A LOT OF WORK!
Good luck.
You need many things. Just to name a few- you need to lease a place, buy all the permits and stuff, an alcohol license, which I might add in Los Angeles County (California) is about $150,000…
Call your local business bureau. You can look it up on the cities or counties website.
You can’t just go take over a building- it’s called trespassing. For music fees, you mean to play songs? No, unless you use them in a commercial or something.
It would be A LOT OF WORK!
Good luck.
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