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Board grants PT Show Club one-year renewal after multiple violations, including stabbing incident
Summary
The Marion County Alcoholic Beverage Board renewed the license for PT Show Club for one year after reviewing multiple violations — including inspections that found private-room sanitation issues and a November parking-lot stabbing — and hearing the applicants remedial steps and staffing changes.
The Local Alcoholic Beverage Board of Marion County voted to renew the liquor license of Indie Restaurant Concepts Inc., operating as PT Show Club (RR4914065), for one year after hearing staff and community accounts of multiple violations and remedial steps taken by the operator.
Board members reviewed inspection reports documenting three initial violations from an excise visit in October and a subsequent November 16 incident described in the report as a public-nuisance battery that resulted in a stabbing in the clubs parking lot. Inspectors also found private-room sanitation problems, including a hole in a private dance-area wall that had been used to deposit used condoms, condom wrappers and tampons, and footage showing after-hours alcohol passing. The police were called to the November incident and emergency services responded, the report says.
The applicant group, represented by attorney Chris Bandy and management including general manager Doug Lima and Dean Reardon of SWR Consulting, told the board they had taken multiple remedial steps: re-taking entertainer headshots with additional coverage measures, restoring and expanding food availability, closing or reconfiguring private-room dividers, instituting routine staff inspections and a permanent staff presence in private areas, and terminating night-shift management and security personnel implicated in the November incident. The operator described new de-escalation training for staff and the use of off-duty officers in the parking lot on busy nights. The board was also presented evidence that some alleged procedural violations had been resolved with the ATC's prosecutor.
Board members debated whether one year was an appropriate period for oversight given the seriousness of the incidents. A motion to renew for one year passed; at least one board member explicitly recorded a dissent and said they would have denied renewal. The board noted that further violations during the one-year term would put the license at serious risk of revocation.
The boards action was limited to the license renewal; no criminal findings were made by the board itself. The operator was directed to maintain and provide documentation of the new policies and training and to work with excise staff on follow-up inspections.
This renewal will be monitored by excise officers and the board said it expects documentation of continued compliance at future check-ins.
