Pacha

The Brooklyn Mirage and its many miserable, very public missteps and malfunctions are, by now, officially, just about a thing of the past, razed to the ground before a single song could ever be shazamed. And yet, a year since it all started to go south, we’re somehow still learning details, still piecing together how…

It was a sweltering evening inside the Swinging Sixties Senior Center in Williamsburg, where the air conditioning struggled against the heat and an unusually packed crowd.  Folding chairs, far and few between, ran out quickly, leaving latecomers standing along the back walls, fanning themselves with pamphlets and meeting agendas. At the front, the microphone barely…

Before a single beam has been raised, Pacha New York is already rolling out a slate of announcements, confusing some with mixed messages while still managing to whip up blind excitement among devotees of the Ibiza-born nightlife brand. Pacha New York’s new website already declares itself “Brooklyn’s Most Iconic Nightclub”—a bit premature given the fact…

It appears the Brooklyn Mirage and its $30 million venue expansion are officially a thing of the past, razed to the ground before a single song could ever be shazamed from its dance floor. Brooklyn Magazine stopped by 140 Stewart Avenue to find the 32,000-square-foot venue completely gone. In its place, just an empty lot…

This summer, the sign outside of 140 Stewart Avenue, former residence of the now shuttered and somewhat disassembled Brooklyn Mirage, will have a new name. But even with Pacha moving in and aiming for a June opening, there are, somehow, still new details surfacing from the long, strange fall of the building’s previous tenants.   Internal…

The Brooklyn Mirage saga may have felt protracted in scope and duration (because, frankly, it was), but when the club and its parent company finally folded earlier this year, it didn’t take much time for them to clear out of their old haunts. In fact, they skipped town in such a hurry that a few…

Following months of messy and complicated court battles, Brooklyn Mirage, its bankrupt parent company Avant Gardner, and its new owner Axar Capital Management are officially out of bankruptcy court as of Thursday morning.  “I’m happy to confirm the plan,” Judge Mary Walrath said at a hearing in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware,…

Editor’s note: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that FIVE Holdings had completed its purchase of Brooklyn Mirage, and its parent company Avant Gardner had finished its bankruptcy proceedings. It has been updated to reflect clarifying information from a Pacha New York rep on Axar and FIVE’s partnership in the agreement.  Pacha New…

The Dubai-based holding company for the global nightlife brand Pacha is expected to enter into a deal with Axar Capital Management on Thursday to buy Avant Gardner and turn its flagship venue, Brooklyn Mirage, into Pacha New York, according to an industry source with knowledge of the agreement. The deal between Pacha’s parent company, FIVE…