Henry Hudsons

[mecarr]

2/7/14: $100,000 building permit to remodel old Brix location to Henry Hudsons.

[warreng88]

Good. This is a good place for a sports bar. Daquiri Zone was a failure from the beginning. A place with the name "Daquiri Zone" doesn't exactly spell sports bar.

[kmf563]

I like the name. Who's doing this?

[Watson410]

Thank you sports bar gods!!! OKC (Bricktown) needs a GOOD sports bar to go watch Thunder games... I hope this place is sucessful!

[metro]

Silly name, but better than "Daiquiri Zone"

[bigjkt405]

The "DZ" was ripped off from a place in Houston.....

[betts]

I heard Mark Clayton was behind this. Give us a real sports bar, Mark!

[jbrown84]

Interesting. There's a lot of new stuff on the way for BT.

[metro]

Interesting. There's a lot of new stuff on the way for BT.

True, but the canal remains virtually untouched for a decade......

[OKCMallen]

Brix...I like it!

[lasomeday]

I think the vacancy rates show where the building owners are asking too much and which ones are actually priced right.

[jbrown84]

I agree.

[mecarr]

Here's their website
BRiX

[metro]

I think the vacancy rates show where the building owners are asking too much and which ones are actually priced right.

Not necessarily, look how many businesses have turned in some of the areas you say are "priced right". There is less foot traffic and visual exposure on the prime canal front land that still remains vacant, but areas by Abuelos and Lower Bricktown get lots of foot traffic from events at Ford Center and Cox Center. As they say, location, location, location. These easy to view businesses are naturally going to get more patrons by naturally increased foot traffic from events and conventions.

[metro]

Here's their website
BRiX

Interesting bit from their website, doesn't say anything about wanting to be a good sports bar.

OUR GOALS
To provide the best customer service possible.
To serve quality food and beverages.
To have a whole lot of fun...

[OKCMallen]

That place has a LOT of potential. The setup in there is pretty great; DZ was just terribly run. Hope they open up the menu a bit...I don't think "steak" when I go tot he sports bar.

[metro]

Thanks what I was thinking OKCMallen, I'm not a bar or sportsbar guy, but steak and tilapia don't sound very "sports bar" even to me. I was thinking nachos, chicken wings, potato skins, burgers, sandwiches, etc.

[sroberts24]

i really would like to see the upper level windows opened up and repaired and the brick returned to the natural red, that would make this so much nicer and i promise it would bring more business just because of curb apeal... its simple PR

[Urbanized]

I heard Mark Clayton was behind this. Give us a real sports bar, Mark!

Mark Clayton is not involved with this project.

[onthestrip]

All I can suggest is that if you call yourself a sportsbar, remember the flat screen TVs, and plenty of them. Tube TVs take up too much space and cant be seen by as many people. So remember, flat screens TVs.

[metro]

onthestrip, peek in the windows. DZ had flat PANEL tv's all over the place and they still failed (heck they had 13" ones at several of the booths and tables in addition to the big ones on the walls), it takes more than FLAT PANEL tv's to make a successful sports bar. Flat SCREEN tv's can still be tube tv's, just the screen is flat.

[onthestrip]

Thanks for the correction again metro, flat panel TV's is what makes a sportsbar, and the food has to be decent too. I never went to DZ, the name of it along with never hearing anything good about it kept me away. Now that there is a new place going in and the fact that there is not a great place to watch sports in Bricktown IMO, I will give some suggestions for a good sportsbar, because everyone seems to get it wrong.

*Flat Panel TVs, dont even consider buying any tube tvs
*Mostly High Definition TVs too
*Location of TVs, dont put them too high up. Ever try to watch a game at Fox n Hound, those TVs are too high to comfortably watch.
*Sound, for the big games that the majority of customers are there to see, play the sound for it
*Have NFL Sunday Ticket and other TV sports packages
*Have an employee with a high sport intelligence that will stay on top of the tv programming and will display the best games on the right TVs. Too many times I have been somewhere only having to tell them what channel the big game is on.

These are the sportsbar commandments, now good luck Brix

[metro]

and GOOD MAN FOOD, I don't think the steak and tilapia menu will last long, either that or the place won't.

[Easy180]

Was hoping this place would be open in time for the nat'l championship...Website says late Jan however

[john60]

They REALLY need to make sure they are open for the Big XII Basketball Tournaments in March...missing out on that would be really, really bad.