The Dead Goat Saloon — make that the Crazy Goat Saloon — is officially up for sale, owner Daniel Darger said.
Asking price is $3.1 million.
Actually, that price will get a buyer the Glass Factory building, which houses the saloon, as well as the neighboring Hotel Albert building. Darger said the buildings, which border the north side of Arrow Press Square near the corner of West Temple and 100 South in downtown Salt Lake City, were listed for sale Thursday.
Darger said the saloon has a 24-year lease at the Glass Factory building but if someone wanted to pony up the $3.1 million and kick the saloon out, "that's all negotiable."
Interest in the two buildings has increased ever since Darger gained a sexually oriented business license for the saloon, which opened as a strip club last weekend.
Many local businesses have complained about the possibility of a strip club downtown and Property Reserve Inc., the real estate arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has sued in an attempt to get a 3rd District Court judge to revoke the saloon's license.
Even the City Council has entered the fray, issuing a moratorium on sexually oriented business licenses in the downtown zoning districts for six months.
Bob Farrington, executive director of the Downtown Alliance, said Darger's sexually oriented business license has increased the price of the two buildings as various downtown interests have considered buying out Darger to quash the strip club.
Meanwhile, Darger will have to be content with a single stage for the fledgling strip club.
Darger had requested permits to build seven more stripper stages at his former blues bar but Salt Lake City Attorney Ed Rutan has squelched those plans.
In a letter to Darger last week, Rutan noted that Darger's original request for a sexually oriented business license included plans for only one stage.
Normally, Darger would be able to amend that license to include more stages. However, given the City Council's moratorium on such licenses Rutan concluded Darger couldn't amend his original plans to include more stages until, or if, the moratorium ends.
"The additional seven stages were not referred to in any way in your application," Rutan wrote. "Thus to the extent that activities related to the construction of the additional seven stages may require any city approval, license or permit, the Temporary Zoning Regulations prohibits their issuance."
Darger said he will send Rutan a letter protesting the decision.
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