![]() Located close to many Detroit entertainment venues, including the Fox Theatre, The Fillmore, Ford Field and Comerica Park, Town Pump Tavern has been a gathering place for more than two decades of fans, other Detroit visitors and residents. RELATED: Mayor Mike Duggan helps residents suddenly evicted from downtown apartment The upper levels of the building were once home to the Royal Palm Hotel before becoming apartments. After what the tavern's website describes as a "suspicious fire" destroyed the inside of the gay bar, it became the headquarters for the Detroit Chapter of the Guardian Angels in the 1970s and '80s. While the pub is vacating its original location, patrons won't have far to go - the tavern is moving across the street, to the former Centaur Bar on Park Avenue.īefore the space came to be what it has been for the past 22 years, it housed a fine dining restaurant and then a gay go-go bar. It was announced last month that the building was sold and the gathering spot on West Montcalm Street would get a new home after occupying the ground floor of the historic Park Avenue House since 1997. DETROIT – Memories of a Downtown Detroit staple will be celebrated this weekend as the Town Pump Tavern prepares for a move after more than two decades.
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