Only teens allowed to get their groove on here
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By Thomas Geyer | Friday, January 11, 2008 |
Partners Bob Woeckener, at left, and Mike Reddish are opening Energy in Moline, a club for teenagers. (Jeff Cook/QUAD-CITY TIMES) Buy this Photo
Teens 13-19 years old now have a dance and social club they can call their own.
Energy, located at the corner of 15th Street and 6th Avenue in Moline, opens Friday at 7:30 p.m.
The club sports a huge game room and lounge complete with pool tables, an air hockey game, video games, snack machines and a 50-inch flat screen television.
The dance floor is roughly 4,000 square-feet, while the lounge is about 2,000 square-feet, said one of the partners in the venture, Mike Reddish, of Muscatine.
“I got the idea from my son,” Reddish said. “When I was a teen I had a place to go.”
Many teens these days are stuck with no real place of their own to hang out, he added.
The club is open Friday and Saturday nights from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m., he said. The cost is $10 to get in and party all night. Sports drinks, energy drinks, soda pop and bottled water will be for sale.
Reddish said he found the building at 1502 6th Avenue to be perfect for his plans.
“I discovered it about six months ago, and we’ve been cleaning and getting it ready ever since,” he said, adding that the building has sat empty for about the past four years.
Pam Owens, who heads Moline Centre Partners, said the building Energy is taking over is the old Montgomery Ward store.
“I have a 13-year-old daughter and she would love something like that,” Owens said, adding that her 19-year-old son usually heads to a coffee bar while her 15-year-old is in front of the X-Box.
“The kids that age like to dance and have a good time. It’s a safe fun activity to do,” she said.
An off-duty Moline police officer will be at the club open to close. And there will be security staff throughout. A dress code will be strictly enforced, and everyone coming in must have an ID.
There can be “no bullying, fighting or crude or unnecessary behavior,” Reddish said.
“We’re taking a very practical approach,” he added. “We’re going to assume all the kids coming in are good until they prove us wrong. We’ll trust them until they prove we can’t.”
Parents are allowed in for a 20-minute tour of the place, but after 20 minutes they have to leave.
“We really wanted this to be a true teen club,” he said, adding that anyone 21 or older will not be allowed in.
While the club will be open Friday and Saturday nights, there will be some nights when it will be open because there is no school the next day. For instance, the club will be open Jan. 20 because there is no school Jan. 21.
“I’m a built-in baby sitter,” Reddish said.
Thomas Geyer can be contacted at (563) 383-2328
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