Hacienda Cantina, a bar-lounge-pool-restaurant thing in Palm Springs that announced that it had shut down yesterday with a Facebook post written in San Diego, might reopen again? Palm Springs is so weird.
KESQ reports that City Manager David Ready conversed with the owners of the restaurant on Tuesday morning. Ready claimed the owners told him that they were in the process of applying to change their liquor license and business license to allow them to serve alcohol outside on the patio after 6 p.m. – cuz that will save the place, or something?
Ready, along with other Palm Springs officials, clearly would like to see Hacienda do well – seeing as how the city doled out $250,000 in grant money to the joint just 18 months ago. The owners of Hacienda also paid Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet over $200,000 in “consulting fees #PouGhazi.
It is really odd that Hacienda would announce that it is closing if it was actually planning on reopening again soon – but, then again, Palm Springs is super weird these days.
No one to this point has mentioned why they think a stand-alone pool bar would be successful in a city with a ton of pool bars with attached resort-hotels…but then maybe they should ask that before doling out a quarter-of-a-million in taxpayer dollars?
