RSS FeedClub Platinum Bounce Closed Down *updated*
This just in…we don’t have all the details but MVTResident, our intrepid reporter on the downtown scene, phoned in to report that Mayor Fenty and Chief Lanier just held a press conference this afternoon at 915 F Street NW to announce that the club operating in Platinum or as Platinum or formerly as Platinum or as Bounce or whatever the name du jour was is closed, presumably finally this time. Abdul Productions’ (the operator of Platinum) business license was suspended (duration unknown) and a white notice was posted on the club’s door. This press conference is not shown on the Mayor’s calendar for today and PQ Living will be looking into this further to get more information. We reported another closing today on F Street making it two such bulletins for the day which we believe is a PQ Living record.
10:15 PM UPDATE: WaPo has put up an article on this matter and we expect WJLA Channel 7 to do a story for the evening news as we walked by this evening and saw a remote location broadcast being set up. WaPo’s article can be found here.
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There are going to be some pissed off teenagers when they show up in costume for the Halloween After Party next Saturday.
Let’s not forget to thank the DNA for bringing this about. The DNA got Fenty, three members of the city council, MPD leadership and many others to come to a public forum about this. This was after other meetings that the DNA sponsored. All downtown condos should join the DNA and support it. Not all do. You can see which buildings belong at http://www.dcdna.org and click on “About.” I understand that 1150 K Street just joined and is not on the site yet. Is your building there? If not, urge your condo board to do the right thing and join.
YAY!!!! No more riots on 7th street on Friday and Saturday nights.
Thank goodness!
Thank you Mayor Fenty, for listening!!!!
Hopefully, Teen Life Productions will start including adults in their business plans for their activities. It’s great that the kids have put together a business but they need adequate adult supervision when they have events. Maybe it shows my age but my dances had a certain number of adults. Sports activities — adults, etc…
I am a promoter for club bounce. My name is Devon Dunn and I am 17 years old a senior at Washington Math Science Technology PCHS. Club Bounce was a safe enviornment and for adults to blame Club Bounce for all the teens gathering at Gallery Place/China Town was not good. Club Bounce never had any fights or problems. Most problems came from teens not over my platinum but over by the verizon center. Where ever there is a major transfer point on the metro there will be teens. Where ever there is a movie theater there will be teens. Where ever there are a large group of buisnesses there will be teens. To close down Club Bounce is not and will not solve the problem.
My name is Kristin and I attend School Without Walls in Washington DC. I agree with Devon Dunn. It was a safe environment. There were never any fights. The only thing that probably got on the nerves of “bussiness owners” and “residents” is that SOME of the teenagers walked in front of cars when they were not supposed to. Very true. However, most of you all are speaking of the noise caused by the teens. I assume you all live near the Verizon Center or in China Town if you can hear these teens. Thing is, the Verizon Center has a variety of events that happen each and every night such as concerts, hockey games, and basketball games. This causes alot more noise than the club does seeing there are thousands of people that go to the VC. At Bounce, there is probably 300. If you don’t want to hear the aftermath of the kids being let out of the club, take the intiative to make police enforce the curfew on teens which is 12 AM. You cannot stop teens from having fun on a Saturday night. And the shooting down by Bounce, had NOTHING to do with the teens which was also stated in the article in the Wash. Post. So stop thinking of these Black (and yes I said BLACK as 99.9% of them are)teenagers as pure idiots and start treating them with respect.
To continue my comment from above,THERESA: you said no more riots on Friday and Saturday nights. I can easily prove your point as inaccurate as Club Bounce at Platinum is only open for teens on Saturday nights.
And to dancing queen: You said no waking up at 3 am? I can EASILY prove your point as exaggerated. The club closes at 11 pm for teens. The curfew is @ 12 am for teenagers in the district. By 3 AM around the Verizon Center, a teen would have been taken care by nearby police officer as the streets are very lit, and police are generally down there.
Kids — you would have more credibility if you would deal with reality and the facts. The gunfire was related to kids who had been at Bounce (check with MPD on this) and many of our neighbors (and it was related at the DNA meeting) have had to run for cover into the businesses to keep away from the mob (yes mob) created by the teens running from a fight at the Metro as they left Club Bounce. This is not an injustice. This is created by children who are out without enough adult supervision. We have done you a favor. You need to learn to how to entertain yourself in an age appropriate way. The next time you decide you want to be “promoters” at the tender age of 14 and 15, please remember to have an adult to child ratio and perhaps it will work. It is not going to reopen. It is done.
The younger generation has spoken, & well said, young citizens. There are, indeed, two sides to every coin.
These two young people will go far in life. For the nonce, let them dance!
We old fogies will remember Mr Kevin Bacon in Footloose…
It was said that other teen parties have been going on in Sept when the problems started to occur. I personally believe that Club Bounce couldnt have been the problem, because for one Club Bounce was going on at Platinum over the Summer (every Saturday) and no complaints were filed until in September when that other teen party started but was recently shut down. Club Bounce wasnt just a party it was a ”Youth Organization”. The teens at the club worked with mentors to learn different positions in running a business. They had Teen Managers, Teen Perfromances, Teen Dj’s, Teens at the Consessions, Teens Planning the Events, and Setting up the Events. Club Bounce gave the teens Community Service for School and even wrote Recommendation letters for Teen graduating High School and going to College. It was an Organization that gave teens hands on experience in what they may have wanted to persue in a career, and just gave other teens something possitive to keep them occupied and off the streets. It gave them the feeling as though ”If I can be an essential part of a bussiness as a Teen, then I can be capable of great things as an Adult”
As for the rumor about the shooting outside of Club Bounce Iam manager of Club Bounce and I am outside of Club Bounce helping escot teens to the station after the parties are over and there was no ”shooting”. There were even police were in Club Bounce ”complementing” it, saying things such as ”I wish we had something like this when we were growing up.”
Parents allowed there children to go to Club Bounce because it has been around for about 2 years and since the day it began until TODAY! there has not been 1 Fight, 1 Shooting, or 1 Stabbing inside or outside or Club Bounce. While other teen parties in DC has have violent outbreaks and conflicts every single event. So if anything it appears as though the innocent is being punished for the mistakes of the others. If anything Fenty should’ve shut down the other teen events and worked closely with Club Bounce so that teens can go to an event with the goal intended to entertain as well as work with the youth. Fenty and the rest of you may think you just shut down a ”Teen Club” when in reality you shut down a chance for the youth to grow.
TO BRONSON:
If you are in middle/high school, there is no need for you to attend teen clubs. Study more. Your grammar and spelling is off. I’m not trying to diss you, I’m just being real. Trust me, you have the rest of your life to party after you finish your schooling.
Children — Club Bounce has not been operating in that space for two years. If you want to make an argument, use correct facts or you won’t have credibility with decision makers. Club Bounce only started at Platinum several months ago and problems increased steadily in the neighborhood from the time that it opened. Yes we have drunk adults but we don’t have significant problems caused by those adults (beyond the problems caused by the adults at Platinum prior to the problems caused by Bounce). If there are other mystery teen parties in the neighborhood, please identify their locations or stop talking about them. They don’t exist as far as I’ve observed. No one has closed Club Bounce as an entity. You will just have to move to a new location and, I hope, actually work with the community where you locate in the future to address your impact. And, I hope, you will be responsible and implement an adult to minor ratio for your future events. That would prove more than anything that you are preparing yourselves to be the responsible adults that you claim to be.
My name is Johnisha Webster.Who attends Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School.I am a freshman. I personally agree with Kristin and Devon. I mostly attend Club Bounce every weekend except 2 or 3. Of all the times
You ALL are missing the point. It is not as much to do about Bounce as much as the city wanted to shut down Platinum. The owner Abdul has a horrible track record at H20 and they shut him down. He tried to get a place on NY Avenue and they shut him down. He tried to illegaly purchase Avenue and they found out and shut him down. Bounce was just an excuse to shut down Platinum. Good for DC. There are many responsible Lounge/Club owners in DC (Lima, Ultrabar, Josephines, Park Place) and people like Abdul have got to go!
pqguy’s point is right on.
In the WaPo article, MPD Cmdr Kamperin notes that “the city could not continue to commit the extra patrols.”
Let’s face it. The Verizon Center gets extra patrols when there is an event, but the City also makes major $$ on ticket sales tax, plus area restaurants & bars get a boost in sales.
Financially, club bounce had the opposite effect on the neighborhood – no ticket sales tax and paying adults were starting to avoid coming to the area. Yet, all of the chaperoning for the club patrons while outside of the club was being provided by the MPD and paid for by the City. Abdul was freeloading off of the City and neighborhood and it’s no wonder the club was shut down.
My name is Attiyah and i currently am a jumior at Cardozo SHS. I am fifteen years old and yes i attend CLUB BOUNCE. I agree with Bronson. It gives us “kids” something to do on a saturday night. And for the record a “kid” is a baby goat and we clearly do not walk on four legs. For what it’s worth Bounce was and IS a positive get away for us STUDENTS. yea school is important but i know for dag-on sure that some of you all complaining about us having studying and such to do that you all didnt waste a perectly good Friday or Saturday night studying. the teens had enough supervision that it kept bounce running for as long as it did. If anything Bounce helped some of my friends. In DCPS now you dont learn business skills in all schools. Like Bronson said the problem does not come from Bounce, and if it does then you all that helped close us down didn’t stop the so called “problem” it just simply dettered it to another location.
My name is Iesha James. I’m a 11th grader at Mckinley Tech HS. I agree with Attiyah. CLUB BOUNCE was a get away for students. With all the chaos and stuff that goes on at home and school. Teenagers needed somewhere to go and unwine and be free without doing anything that would get them hurt or killed or arrested. I do not know about the other teens and what they did for fun but Club Bounce was like my get away from home and it was fun for me. For all those adults and parents talking about we need to study more they need to actually sit back and look at the real big picture. Most of us are smart and do our work and Club Bounce doesn’t distract us from none of that so do not use that as an excuse and I can tell you for a fact that when I attended Club Bounce no gun’s were fired afterwards, no fights, NO NOTHING. Club Bounce has been around for 2 years and has not been a problem untill now and it is not really a problem but people bring it up like it is when they did not realize that the Avenue was held down Gallery Place too and those fights came from there. So for all you parents who want to close down Club Bounce just think if us teens can’t go to Club Bounce where can we go and what can we do on a Saturday night.
This is sad.
Only place on the weekend where we let it all loose and look they shut it down and we have adults on here celebrating like little kids. You would think adults would be mature and say encouraging things and not things like “If a child doesn’t know how to act, take away their toys. Good bye!!!!” or “There are going to be some pissed off teenagers when they show up in costume for the Halloween After Party next Saturday.” but that just shows how ignorant people are anonymously. Everyone wants to have fun, and if you think shutting down a place where kids were safe and sound is going to reduce “Fights” or “Mobs” then you’re socially impaired. I am truly amazed at the maturely level of these adults…wow.
I think it’s good to hear from the kids even though they have yet to understand that they don’t live in a vacuum but do live in a community. it will take some years for them to understand that. regardless of what the environment was like on the inside of 915 F Street, overall there was a net negative contribution to the community at large which the community recognized and acted on. thank goodness.
but, the teen club concept has been around for ages…there used to be one in Bethesda called Bullshooters (I kid you not!) which operated out of the Holiday Inn’s nightclub (now a Doubletree). it was short lived because Tommy the Matchmaker was more successful with The Yacht Club which by the way is still operating. it will be stopping operations at the Doubletree next January after a 17 year run. call it a pre-Internet 30+ set match.com.
lots of the old Fugazi shows were all ages and I’m glad to see that the 930 Club continues that tradition. teens do need a place to socialize with their peers but 915 F Street is not the place to do it.
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in honor of the closing of this ‘dance’ club, i’m doing a celebratory dance right now. whoo-hooo!
no more waking up at 3am due to the temporarily deafened club goers yelling at each other in the alley. oh, it’s a happy happy day.