Sandiegoville:
Modern Times' Far West Lounge in Encinitas has permanently closed, marking another major setback for the once-sprawling San Diego craft beer brand as questions now surround the future of its remaining local hospitality projects, including downtown's Timestead, Flavordome tasting room and the planned Cathedral of Caffeination coffee concept in North Park.
The Encinitas closure comes after Modern Times initially told customers the North County venue would be taking what it described as a brief "pre-summer sabbatical" on June 8 and 9 for maintenance, calibration, and "the occasional ceremonial tightening of a mysterious bolt." Days later, the company posted that the Far West Lounge would remain closed until further notice due to unspecified "licensing difficulties."
Now, according to Wes Van De Vort, CEO of Wings & Arrow and current owner of Modern Times Beer, the Encinitas closure is permanent.
"The hospitality group that is licensing the Modern Times name has made a decision to walk away from both Far West Lounge and Flavordome in North Park," Van De Vort told SanDiegoVille. "Wings & Arrow has decided to take over the North Park location, but could not come to an agreement to take over Far West. I do not know their plans with that location moving forward."
*** City of Encinitas real time news***
ReplyDeleteThis is great news and a step against Bruce Ehlers’s efforts to make Encinitas PB Norte.
The freak show, including our own wolf and sheep’s clothing, is on their way out.
3/5 of them were removed in the last election. Then, The Arizona developer who has quit and embarrassment and humiliation from taking bribes from her developer masters, will not even run in the next election. Ed is a shoe in.
And the remaining weak ass Bruce Ehlers has been outed for being on the BIAspear team. He did it to himself. Three biggest horrible actions against Encinitas include in priority order:
1. The worst pick for city manager, putting in a BIASpear insider.
2. Supporting the past and the current staff building exercise to put even more full-time employees on the payrolls and increase the pensions in perpetuity. Thereby having very little money for a huge deferred maintenance, traffic cops, and needed projects like the quiet zone that were implemented in San Diego Solana Beach Oceanside, all the cities in Orange County including San Clemente. Why the hell is Encinitas always last?
3. He’s been supporting the drug addict losers destroying Encinitas by supporting such disgusting magnets as a CRC.
If there’s a good candidate for a Mayer next election, maybe we could get five good council members.
If not, we’ll get four good council members with Ed coming on board and hopefully Bruce will come to his senses, or his family will step in since he seems to be slipping.
Then we can get five good council members and Encinitas will really be on the road to recovery.
The truth is simple and the path is clear.
Bruce Ehlers or his family needs to make him step down. Sorry Unc Ehlers.
This is Bigger than you. This is abou:
Encinitas Surf town🌊❤️
Not Ehlers/Blakespear BIG 💩TOWN
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Spot on.
DeleteThis below text in today’s SDUT sounds a whole lot like the City of Encinitas:
A less-publicized factor in San Diego’s financial troubles is a sharp increase during the last decade in payouts to settle lawsuits against the city and skyrocketing insurance premiums caused by those hefty payouts.
Payouts nearly doubled between fiscal years 2018 and 2026, rising from $24.8 million to $48.9 million. And the city’s annual insurance premiums have nearly quadrupled over that time, from $9.8 million to $35.4 million.
Premiums would have risen even higher if city officials hadn’t agreed to twice increase the city’s deductible, from $3 million to $5 million in 2022 and then up to $7.5 million last year.
Spending so much more on payouts and insurance takes away dollars that could be spent on other priorities, such as law enforcement, firefighting, libraries and parks.
City officials say a key part of the problem is San Diego’s crumbling infrastructure, most of which is past the end of its useful life because it was built in the 1960s and 1970s and expected to last about 50 years.
That has led to more payouts to people injured by broken sidewalks or uneven pavement, and more payouts to the owners of property damaged by overflows from decaying sewer pipes and flood control channels.
Ehlers has failed us. We need a real mayor that can pick a good city manager
Truth.
God bless our Surf town
Stop Ehlers destruction and trying to implement PB Norte, and a big drug town
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DeleteThank you local heroes. 💪❤️
DeleteThank you https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZyhtGXM-G8/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Delete*** City of Encinitas whack ass news***
DeleteEvery single comment above is brought to you by a mentally challenged person called the repeater, who enjoys saying Encinitas is San Diego, when it's clearly not.
Vote for Bruce, don't believe the lies. Think for youself, don't buy what this goof is selling
Bring back Alberto's!!
DeleteFreakshow do not matter.
DeleteNorth county taco shops matter!
DeleteWatching an insane person agree with himself is funny as fuck.
ReplyDeleteYup, spot on, lol!!!
ReplyDeleteAgreeing is deletable thanks to the moderator.
ReplyDelete7:24 and 7:30 are the same poster, so delete one of them.
ReplyDeleteFreakshow do not matter.
DeleteNor do multiple personality psychotic posters
DeleteNo one in our city's council history could hold a candle to Kranz advocating for guests buying full fifths of alcohol onsite to party at the denied Portofino project. Nopers "real time fake news," learn your history so you can quit embarrassing yourself. PB North was Kranz's baby: https://encinitasundercover.blogspot.com/2015/07/barth-on-downtown-bar-problems.html
ReplyDelete"One year and at least one dead girl after failing to persuade her colleague Tony Kranz to vote with her to rein in the worst excesses of the downtown bars, former council member Teresa Barth writes in the Coast News: The Encinitas bar scene has been causing trouble for some time."
ReplyDelete"The vote last year was 3-2, with Barth and Shaffer voting for the DAO, and Kranz, Muir, and Gaspar voting against it. Instead, the council created another full-time, pensioned code enforcement position, which isn't even on duty most late nights and weekends!"
Why aren't Gaspar and Muir named as well, why because the repeater has a grudge against someone else.....
ReplyDeleteAre you denying Kranz‘s vote? We’ll wait.
DeleteHe’s your guy maybe you want to explain his vote? We all know why let’s see if you do.
DeleteAre you denying Muir's vote or Gaspar's vote, we're waiting.....
DeleteMrs. Repeater, are you on vacation in New York?
DeleteHuh? Are you posting from The Office?
Delete4:18- lay off the THC and poisons girl.
DeleteYou have torched your brain. 😢
Does anyone know if San Antonio is going to run again, getting to be that time of the year...
ReplyDeleteHe’s not, but he likes to keep ‘em guessing. Why is anyone’s guess.
DeleteSo officially he's not running? Interesting....
DeletePlease can it be offical. He still has plenty of time to file though.
DeleteHow about Marco Gonzalez “representing” all the bar owners against any kind of restrictions? He called it the “Encinitas hospitality Association,” hilarious name..
ReplyDeleteGonzo is a Freakshow scum.
DeleteHe should hang his head down and follow his predator bro, and fat and ugly sister out of town.
The electrical union and all the union women and men are so embarrassed to be associated with that fat whore.
What a disgusting family🤮
Gonzalez clan living rent free in some people's heads is hilarious. By all accounts they're happy and striving, yet the miserable scum of Encinitas continue to talk about them like they care.
DeleteOh well deleted again.
ReplyDeleteWe all know that’s what happens when you max out on THC, It deletes your brain cells..
DeleteSame if you read the National Review.
Delete8:02p Why is it that you always bring up something that you know so little about? There is a therapy for you, and us.
ReplyDeleteIsn't a new beer place opening up next door to Modern Times?
ReplyDeleteSome things have not changed in 10 years.
ReplyDeleteAnonymousJuly 1, 2016 at 1:12 AM
The reality is that when I-5 is slowed, or stopped up, people will use Highway 101. It's a major arterial.
Leucadia is not blighted. The same people who were pushing for Leucadia to be declared blighted so that they could be on or strongly influence, a local redevelopment agency (RDAs have since been abolished by Jerry Brown), now want to force permanent obstructions on our State Highway (currently maintained by the City, but belonging to the general public).
These "blight-heads" are the real obstructionists, those who want to declare narrowing our highway from four lanes to two lanes, to be "traffic calming," so they can get negative environmental impact declarations, further encouraging and subidizing development through unwanted densification.
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DeleteRedevelopment agencies went away in 2012. 20+ years ago was when Stocks wanted to "explore" what they could do...
Deletehttps://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2005/06/09/blogger-and-town-council-president-uneasy-over-leucadia-redevelopment/
Jerome Stocks was a big redevelopment district guy in Leucadia, part of the old BIA crowd. So no, you're whole statement is wrong.
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ReplyDeleteNice reporting Barbara Henry. This is getting some truthful facts out there.
With this latest budget debacle, Bruce Ehlers cement his place in the top four worst mayors in his history.. here’s the order in priority of the worst mayors ever:
1. Tony Kranz- known to all locals as DalaKranz the non-tax paying beer guzzling idiot.
2. Katie Blakespear- known to all as BIAspear. Known for her effective sellout techniques and turning a beach city into another LA shit city.
3. Jerome $tock$. - in one night vote late into the evening Jerome sold out the taxpayers an increased all of City Hall pensions over 30% devastating Encinitas and causing an issue for a deferred maintenance in perpetuity.
4. Unc Bruce Ehlers - locals know him for closely resembling Joe Biden and is having the same devastating effect on Encinitas as Joe Biden did on America., Bruce got heart-bombed 🥰 by an incompetent experience insider and now added even more full-time employees and further devastating Encinitas by having a hyper stuffed obese City Hall that is not accomplishing their goals of fixing our roads, fixing the people dying on the streets, putting traffic cops on the streets, keeping a safe, and addressing the massive flooding and lawsuits.
Here is some budget information from the incompetent city manager who earlier this year got an incredible record, setting gold in parachute in the highest for a city the small.
An urban forester and a code enforcement officer will be among the four new positions added to Encinitas city staff in the new fiscal year, which begins July 1.
The City Council last week unanimously approved a proposed budget that includes the four new positions, as well as all the other expenses proposed for the coming year.
“(It’s) a very well-planned-out, and very good budget,” City Manager Jennifer Campbell said at the end of the council’s meeting.
So after previous years of hiring 13 new city employees now Bruce is responsible for adding four more to that obese number and tanking our Beach City.
Uncle Bruce needs to go and his family needs to step in for his own well-being .
Do not let this beach town suffer because of the health issues of one aging gentleman and his ego.
This is corruption.. The shitty council spends all of its time talking about a stupid farmers market with very little impact on the city and then purposely buried this super important item as a late night agenda when everybody is at home, trying to rest to go to work the next day to pay the huge property taxes,
DeleteWhat does the city do?
Hire more fat lazy city employees that work from home and Cruz the beach. The City Hall is obese and needs some serious health intervention.
The City of Encinitas beach city needs a real city manager.
Unc Bruce and his sweetheart Arizona Jenny🌵 need to go.
Thank you for the accurate but incredibly sad news.
DeleteIt’s very sad to see at Sunita is suffering so much due to the incompetence on city council. WTF?
Can’t wait for Ed to get on city council to start talking some common sense. Maybe the other clowns will wake up a bit.
* It’s very sad to see Encinitas suffering so much due to the incompetence
DeleteIt's sad that one blogger just created a conversation with themselves in the space of 4 posts. At least try using different words when you write, or tell Grok to do it for you.....
DeleteTo the best of what I know, Bruce has no major health issues. Really bush to stoop that low....
DeleteModern Times has become Historical Times Artifact
ReplyDeleteR.I.P.
Modern times is this flatline as Tony Kranz testosterone level.
Delete- Limp Bizkit
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Delete-Repeater
Tips for repeat posting to create the appearance that many people agree with you:
ReplyDelete1.) Avoid using the exact same phrases and misspellings Use different language and ideas. Remember, you are trying to replicate the diverse experiences and thoughts of real people, and real people are not uniform.
2.) Make the timing of your repeat comments random. Don’t string together four or five comments in the span of 15 minutes, followed by hours of silence. Real people don’t comment obsessively in short bursts. They have a life, and are not hovering over their keyboard waiting to reply immediately to agree with your brilliance.
3.) Avoid fawning language like “Thank you for the accurate but incredibly sad news.” Real people don’t lick each other’s balls like that.
4.) Or, consider not being a douche. Don’t try to fool people into thinking that you are important and many people agree with you. Just express your opinion and leave it at that.
Excellent post.
DeleteWell said. I completely agree with this. The author is very smart and good looking.
DeleteThank you for this rational and correct comment.
DeleteThe poster at 8:15 has excellent ideas and personal hygiene.
DeleteNicely done, sir...
DeleteCould it actually be a new day on EU?
ReplyDeleteNo feakshow calling is like a fresh breeze and most welcomed.
Freakshow do not matter.
DeleteWait until later today when the repeater comes back from the beach....lol
ReplyDelete5:22pm Thanks for giving us all a break if only for a few hours.
ReplyDeleteFreakshow do not matter.
DeleteTHERE IT IS, AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF OUR GREATNESS!
DeleteFreakshow do not matter.
Delete7:01 comments are excellent!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.instagram.com/saveencinitasnow?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Yea well, your same as always limited and not unexpected response clearly indicates, well, limited acuity on your part.
ReplyDeleteReduce your THC input
DeleteI'm into crack, silly....
Delete6:52pm Yea well, you always fall back to that made up response when you got nothing else.
ReplyDeleteReefer madness is alive and well, sort of, in this knuckle dragger.
It is times like these and posters like yourself that has me questioning if humanity is still evolving.
Weed bad, monster no like! Reminds of one of those old time residents who were sure each new convenience store with beer meant the fall of western society....
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