Capital Square 1031 plans to move into the former Have a Nice Day Cafe space.
BizSense’s Hard Hat Happy Hour: Presented by Sands Anderson is back for its second installment, and this time we’re taking the show to Shockoe Bottom to the site of a former music venue and notorious night club.
Join us for a lively evening on Wednesday, June 8, at the former Flood Zone/Have a Nice Day Café building at 11 S. 18th St., where guests will get an up-close look at the bones of the property as it’s in the midst of a transformation into the corporate headquarters of local real estate firm Capital Square 1031.
Get face time with Yogi Singh and his group that bought the building in 2014, along with Capital Square founder Louis Rogers and representatives from Hourigan Construction, the contractor handling renovations.
You’ll hear stories about some of the hidden gems they found left over from the previous operators and the challenges of turning the 13,000-square-foot building into a corporate office that could lure a company out of Innsbrook. Amrit Singh of Fultz Architects is the project architect.
Hard Hat Happy Hours is a series of quarterly gatherings that take the local business community inside the area’s most talked-about new real estate development projects. The first event sold out and brought nearly 300 guests to the unfinished ninth floor of Richmond’s newest office tower in March.
With this second round, you’ll get a ticket into the building that operated as the Flood Zone until about the late 1990s. In the days before The National, the Flood Zone helped draw big name acts through Richmond. The Dave Matthews Band, Fugazi, Phish, Everclear, Cheap Trick, Weezer, Warren Zevon, Henry Rollins, Wilco, among countless others graced the stage. (Click the Phish and DMB links to some old videos of Flood Zone shows.)
It then became the Have a Nice Day Café, a night club that eventually developed a troubled reputation and ultimately shut down in 2014.
As with all BizSense events, there will be ample food, drink and valuable networking in a unique setting.
Tickets are now on sale here. The first HHHH sold out both waves of tickets within hours, so get them while they’re hot.
And for nostalgia’s sake, we’re working to create a playlist for the evening to pipe in music from bands that played the Flood Zone over the years. BizSense readers: drop us a line or post a comment below this story to let us know some of the acts you remember from back in the day.
If your memories from those days are hazy, here’s a website that keeps a list of the bands that passed through the venue, dates included.
Special thanks to the sponsors of this event, including presenting sponsor Sands Anderson, Keiter, TowneBank, Timmons Group, Safe Harbor Title, S.B. Cox and Postbellum.
Capital Square 1031 plans to move into the former Have a Nice Day Cafe space.
BizSense’s Hard Hat Happy Hour: Presented by Sands Anderson is back for its second installment, and this time we’re taking the show to Shockoe Bottom to the site of a former music venue and notorious night club.
Join us for a lively evening on Wednesday, June 8, at the former Flood Zone/Have a Nice Day Café building at 11 S. 18th St., where guests will get an up-close look at the bones of the property as it’s in the midst of a transformation into the corporate headquarters of local real estate firm Capital Square 1031.
Get face time with Yogi Singh and his group that bought the building in 2014, along with Capital Square founder Louis Rogers and representatives from Hourigan Construction, the contractor handling renovations.
You’ll hear stories about some of the hidden gems they found left over from the previous operators and the challenges of turning the 13,000-square-foot building into a corporate office that could lure a company out of Innsbrook. Amrit Singh of Fultz Architects is the project architect.
Hard Hat Happy Hours is a series of quarterly gatherings that take the local business community inside the area’s most talked-about new real estate development projects. The first event sold out and brought nearly 300 guests to the unfinished ninth floor of Richmond’s newest office tower in March.
With this second round, you’ll get a ticket into the building that operated as the Flood Zone until about the late 1990s. In the days before The National, the Flood Zone helped draw big name acts through Richmond. The Dave Matthews Band, Fugazi, Phish, Everclear, Cheap Trick, Weezer, Warren Zevon, Henry Rollins, Wilco, among countless others graced the stage. (Click the Phish and DMB links to some old videos of Flood Zone shows.)
It then became the Have a Nice Day Café, a night club that eventually developed a troubled reputation and ultimately shut down in 2014.
As with all BizSense events, there will be ample food, drink and valuable networking in a unique setting.
Tickets are now on sale here. The first HHHH sold out both waves of tickets within hours, so get them while they’re hot.
And for nostalgia’s sake, we’re working to create a playlist for the evening to pipe in music from bands that played the Flood Zone over the years. BizSense readers: drop us a line or post a comment below this story to let us know some of the acts you remember from back in the day.
If your memories from those days are hazy, here’s a website that keeps a list of the bands that passed through the venue, dates included.
Special thanks to the sponsors of this event, including presenting sponsor Sands Anderson, Keiter, TowneBank, Timmons Group, Safe Harbor Title, S.B. Cox and Postbellum.
Haha oh yes – I was at most of the shows listed… some other bands I saw there:
Buffalo Tom
Travis (who opened for Ben Folds)
Matthew Sweet
Cracker
Filter
Sigh, those were the days. Looking forward to the Happy Hour!
You can’t say Flood Zone without conjuring up memories of the local Richmond greats…Fighting Gravity and the Pat McGee Band!
Richmond bands….also Agents of Good Roots!
You mean Boy O Boy? 😉
Saw some great shows there not long after moving to Richmond: Sugar (Bob Mould’s band after Hüsker Dü), Paul Westerberg (his solo tour after the Replacements broke up), Soul Asylum, Concrete Blonde, Juliana Hatfield, Matthew Sweet – I’m forgetting a bunch of others, I’m sure. Have fun creating the playlist.
The Pat Mcgee Band packed the place weekly for a couple of years while playing their residency gig, prior to signing to a major label and touring the country nonstop. Also don’t forget Agents of Good Roots!
And let’s not forget The Dave Mathew’s Band every Wednesday for a very long time.
Dick Dale
Cracker
And Dave Matthews on Wednesday nights!!
Ben Folds Five