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Article: Emerald City nightclub felled by its own success Club drew crowds, problems; Aug. 8 shooting prompts owners to close
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 20, 1999
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Emerald City stands as a paradox: a successful nightclub now
closed because of its popularity.
The downtown nightclub -- the scene of an Aug. 8 shooting that
left one man dead and his brother wounded -- joins a list of other
hip-hop clubs in the area forced to consider a change in format
simply because of the huge crowds they attracted. Although the
club's capacity was 400, an Emerald City spokeswoman said, lines
wrapped around the building on weekend nights.
The young, mostly 21- to 30-year-old crowd that patronized Emerald
City says the club, which opened in 1997, simply fell victim to its
popularity.
There are so few venues in Milwaukee offering a hip-hop format,
they say, that Emerald ...