The team at SwindonWeb have only just just reported on the story about The Apartment closing, one week after Swindon Centic broke the story.
Swindon Centric Says ; Expecting The Adver to get this story in a month or two. After the venue has closed and reopened as something else, several times over.
In an update from last week's story about the loss of The Apartment in Havelock Square.
Further details obtained by Swindon Centric today indicate that The Apartment will close, with deep irony, at the end of Friday 13th February, in less than two weeks.
Swindon Centric Says ; That falling sound you can hear isn't snow dropping off your roof, but the level of quality in eating and drinking falling in the town centre. We wish the two dozen staff who are about to be made redundant the best in finding something else.
At least they won't be short of places to buy doughnuts and hotdogs on the doorstep of their soon-to-be-former place of work.
Swindon Centric has been told that The Apartment, the bar and restaurant venue in Havelock Square, is to close imminently.
The news comes with further unclear details that it may be bought by someone else.
The venue was the first example of a fight back against the Fleet Street/Regent Street pubs and bars about ten years ago, by adding a quality drinking and eating place to the centre of town. Swindon Centric can remember in the summer months that lunch would be served on tables and under parasols in the square, adding a touch of 'cafe culture' that all town planners wish to excel to. That's a far cry from the uneven, chewing gum-caked mess that the square is now, along with the aroma of doughnuts and sugar floating on the air.
Jamie Cullum played The Apartment just over five years, with tickets at £10, all 300 were sold within 20 minutes, the venue has held dance classes and comedy nights.
Swindon Centric Says ; Shame to see such a quality venue come to an end in a part of town where quality is sliding down. With the (hopefully) imminent redevelopment work, this is the type of venue that needs to be retained and encouraged once the work is finished.
