WEST LAFAYETTE – The loss of business during the recent months of the coronavirus pandemic proved too much for the Neon Cactus, a popular night club in West Lafayette among Purdue students since 1992, owners Sheila and Jim Cochran announced Wednesday.
The Cochrans said the Neon Cactus, in West Lafayette Levee Plaza, was effectively closed as of Tuesday.
“It is with great sadness that we are announcing that the Neon Cactus has filled its last mug and has closed,” they said in a statement.
“We have spent the past months working with several advisers and health officials to explore a variety of options to continue the business,” the Cochrans wrote. “Unfortunately, the loss of the final months of the spring semester, fall sporting events and six months of business, combined with the current and indefinite health restrictions, left us unable to find a viable path for the coming months.”
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In early July, Cochrans experimented with reopening for the first time since March under Stage 4.5 of Gov. Eric Holcomb’s statewide reopening plan, which allowed bars and nightclubs to start serving at 50 percent capacity. The club – typically a spot that draws lines outside during busy nights when Purdue is in session, even with a 1,290-person capacity – was retrofitted with sneeze guards at serving stations, door personnel wearing face shields, bars marked with six-foot distancing and tables removed to fit just 250 for the summer crowd.
That test run lasted a week, mainly, Sheila Cochran told the J&C, because people didn’t come. Whether it was because campus still was virtually empty – “or maybe people just didn’t really feel safe coming out, yet” – Cochran said she wasn’t sure, preferring to close again until late August when students were scheduled to be back for Purdue’s campus reopening.
The club didn’t roeopen with the start of Purdue’s fall semester, though, as a county health order continued to restrict bar seating, dance floors and other features in the club.
“Over the past 28 years, we have enjoyed working with our team members and serving the countless students and members of the community who celebrated with us,” the Cochrans wrote. “We will cherish the good times that we all had together.”
This story will be updated.
Reach Dave Bangert at 765-420-5258 or at dbangert@jconline.com. Follow on Twitter: @davebangert.
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