PI Update: Club Names Eliminated.....Why Now?

Mannequins prior to closure. Some of the "mood" signs on the building front are shown.

Mannequins post-closure. Only the angled marquee signs were eliminated. The main horizontal sign remained in place as did the "Dance Palace" portion of the sign. Mood signs were removed.

Within the past few weeks the Mannequins name was finally removed from the horizontal sign but "Dance Palace" remains in place on the marquee. 

8TRAX prior to closure. Groovy.

After closure, the words on the front of the club were painted over but the mod paint job remained in place on the building and doors.

In the past couple weeks the groovy paint job was painted over in favor of beige.

Adventurers Club prior to closure.

Adventurers Club post-closure and post-gutting of most artifacts.

Most recently the Adventurers Club name was concreted over. Reported yesterday that the AC name that had remained at the top of the tower has also now been painted over. 

BET Soundstage Club prior to closure.

The BET name was dropped but the Soundstage Club name remained as the venue was offered awhile for private rentals. But this is how it looked until a couple weeks ago.

The name has finally been removed. So why were the club names removed recently, three years after the clubs closed? One of our Blog sources is saying that it's the end of Disney's fiscal year and Downtown Disney had some money remaining in their budget that they either had to spend or lose. So they're spending it, among other things, removing club references. They're hoping that people will forget about them! They're hoping that people will quit asking what time the clubs open that night? Same source says that there are still no third parties signed for any of the former club locations! Opinion: If no third parties rented the buildings before the names were taken down, they're not going to rent them now either. Names or no names, they still look like club buildings and they're too large and ill-suited for anything else.