Spider Kelly’s Creeping Into Larger Digs

Posted by The Editorial Desk / Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Clarendon bar hoppers will have another super-sized option to consider once Spider Kelly’s completes a planned expansion into the vacant units that currently separate it from upscale sibling, Eventide.

The lateral move–Spider Kelly’s co-founder Nick Freshman confirmed that they’re annexing the spaces once occupied by specialty shops Clarendon Watch, Orpheus Records and K.A.T video–will also give Freshman (general manager at Eventide) and Nick Langman (co-owns Spider Kelly’s and the adjoining Clarendon Ballroom) an entertainment monopoly on the 3100 block of Wilson Boulevard.

Freshman declined to offer an official debut date–”We have just started demolition, so the best I can say right now is we will open sometime in 2010,” was the best he could muster–but agreed that the move should put Spider Kelly’s on par with neighbors Liberty Tavern, Clarendon Ballroom and Eventide (square footage-wise, anyway).

No word yet on how the real estate raid will affect SK’s food or beverage options.

–Warren

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