Seo, who had been an everyday to the Chicago Bar within the early Nineties, referred to as Neon Prophet the closest factor Chicago Bar needed to a home band.
“They are the godfather of Chicago Bar,” he stated.
General supervisor Ben West stated the bar will open with restricted capability in step with the county’s COVID-19 protocols. But as soon as restrictions loosen up, he stated he plans to rent extra staffers, which may embrace former Chicago Bar workers.
For now, the one former worker coming again is the popular bartender Kerwyn Lewis, West stated.
Running a bar is the newest out-of-the-box profession transfer for Seo, a South Korean native who moved to Tucson in 1986 to work at Hughes Aircraft’s missile plant. Nine years later, Seo give up Hughes to enter partnership with Peter Wilke at Time Market on East University Boulevard.
In 2004, Seo bought his curiosity out there and acquired the cafe.
He and West had dreamed aloud again then of opening a jazz bar, “however everyone informed me to not do it in Tucson as a result of I wouldn’t have an viewers for it,” Seo stated.
“I believe Tucson is extra of a jazz night time or two kind of city, not a spot that may survive off of doing jazz seven nights per week,” West stated, which is why the Chicago Bar redux will function a mixture of musical types together with acoustic, bluegrass, rock and reggae. “They’ve been saying for years that Tucson is the subsequent Austin. So we’re going to combine up the music as a lot as potential.”
