While other night life venues populate that area of the city including some major entertainment venues like The Showbox Sodo where nationally known live artists perform, it’s still a long ways away from Capitol Hill, the longtime home of the city’s LGBTQ community and a densely populated neighborhood within easy walking distance of many queer businesses. Some raised their eyebrows at the location choice in a part of town dominated by industrial and commerical businesses including warehouses and wholesale outlets and a lack of residential housing. RPlace’s general manager Floyd Lovelady had teamed up with business partners to create a new multi-purpose LGBTQ night life venue they had named THE COMEBACK and found a location formerly occupied by the straight club Eden Seattle at 1950 1st Avenue South just down the street from the SoDo Krispy Kreme plant and up the street from Starbucks Headquarters. We broke the news MONTHS ago that employees from the popular Capitol Hill gay bar RPlace that lost its lease last year at its Pine Street location had found a new home in the SoDo district of Seattle.
