A bit more checking – and a tip from Tucson Weekly contributor Eric “Swede” Swedlund – has shed a bit more light on what’s going into several spaces in the vicinity of 300 E. Congress St., where those science exhibits have been held for the past year or two.

Liquor license applications have now been filed for three different establishments in that area. A place called Proper is apparently going in at 300 E. Congress. Another place called Diablo Burger is going in at 312 E. Congress St. and a bar called Good Oak Bar is slated for the space at 316 E. Congress St.

Ummm … wow? Three new places in addition to Lulu’s Shake Shoppe, which opens in mid-October, and the new restaurant Saint House that’s going in where Sharks Bar used to be. Vaudeville Cabaret is also being converted into a new bar and live-music venue called Voodoo Jack’s and let us not forget about the new bar JunXion and the yet-to-be-named restaurant at 50 E. Broadway Blvd. also opening in the area.

This article appears in Sep 27 – Oct 3, 2012.

7 replies on “Update: A New Bar and Two New Restaurants Are Opening Downtown”

  1. A burger place all of a two minute walk from Monkey Burger? I’m all for new businesses, but a little diversity of food fare would be nice. A themed burger joint is already being done, and done well.

  2. Wow, I was worried there for a minute! A new bar hasn’t opened downtown in over forty minutes.
    What’s the difference between Tucson and yogurt?
    Yogurt HAS active, living culture.

  4. Oh ye of little faith. Gon’ be a buncha folks to fill them places once them new dormitories open. Downtown may change a tad.

  5. @Red Star. Probably. But let us not forget the main advantages of working food service: As many free French fries as you can sneak behind the manager’s back and the ever-coveted shift drink.

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