WAA Wildcat House, LLC of Tucson (April A.Worden, Owner/Manager) bought the famous discotheque, Wildcat House at 1801 N Stone Avenue in Tucson for $675,000 ($67.50 PSF). The free standing 10,000-square-foot corner building (built 1977) located at the northwest corner of Stone Avenue and Lester Street, sold with 4.38 acres of I-1 zoned land, approximately 3.6 acres of which is excess land.
Like most major cities, Tucson had its own disco subculture scene ‘for sure’ and the Wildcat House was the ‘good vibes’ at the center of it all, ‘feelin’ the funk’ and ‘getting down’, the place to go to ‘get your groove on’ with the ‘Roxy’, dancing, ‘the threads’, and ‘big hair’, all that ‘totally hot’ stuff from the late 1970s and 1980s. The Wildcat House was ‘loooo-king Gooood’ too up until April 2012 when the ‘far out crib’ closed, man.
Can you dig it? As recently as 2005 it had been rumored a possible disco revival with foxy Madonna was possible, but like ‘freaky-deaky’ it didn’t happen. Bummer!
It sold in ‘mint condition’ fully fixturized, complete with ‘flash back’ 16-foot ceilings, powerful PA system, a huge dance floor, dance cages, disco lights, and a type-6 liquor license.
The building could be ‘funked-out’ (repurposed) for almost anything, a fitness gym, church, charter school or other retail use. With the industrial zoning connected to the property, it could become anything one can imagine.
The seller was the original builder and owner-operator of the Wildcat Club for 35 years, The Graduate Restaurants of San Luis Obispo, CA (William Everett, Manager). Winfield Shiraz with Daum Commercial Real Estate of Los Angeles, CA represented the seller.
Juan Teran, CCIM, with Chapman Lindsey Commercial Real Estate Services of Tucson represented the buyer and will be marketing the property.
In conclusion, I’d just have to say, ‘Catch you on the Flip-side’ and ‘Keep on Truckin’.
To ‘dig’ more Teran should be reached at 520.747.4000 ext #104.