{"id":2147094,"date":"2025-11-10T18:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2147094"},"modified":"2025-11-10T18:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:41:18","slug":"yes-the-proposal-for-a-new-live-music-venue-on-thompson-street-is-exciting-but-its-going-to-rile-up-the-neighbors-asheville-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/yes-the-proposal-for-a-new-live-music-venue-on-thompson-street-is-exciting-but-its-going-to-rile-up-the-neighbors-asheville-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, the proposal for a new live music venue on Thompson Street is exciting, but it\u2019s going to rile up the neighbors \u2022 Asheville Watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I really do love a great outdoor music venue.<\/p>\n

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I also really do love not living right next to a great outdoor music venue.<\/p>\n

In Fletcher where I live, on summer nights we can hear the band at the Auction House restaurant\/bar at the corner of Fanning Bridge and Hendersonville Road, although it\u2019s not annoyingly loud. Events at Bill Moore Community Park, maybe a mile from our house, are a little more audible, especially baseball games that get parents riled up.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a nuisance, but not any kind of deal breaker. Still, I wouldn\u2019t want it any closer.<\/p>\n

My wife and I have been to several outdoor shows at Asheville Yards this summer and really like that downtown venue. But ever since Salvage Station and The Outpost, two separate venues on the French Broad River, got wiped out by Helene last year, the outdoor music scene has been a little less vibrant.<\/p>\n

So when the Ashevegas news blog first reported <\/a>that a group of seven longtime managers at the Orange Peel live music venue got together to form Big Picture Concert Group and plan to open a new outdoor music venue on Thompson Street, I let out a little internal \u201cWoohoo!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

But my \u201cWoohooo\u201d was quickly followed by an \u201cUh-oh\u201d when I read the details on the location of this new venue \u2014 155 Thompson St., the former home of Brouwer\u00efj Cursus K\u0115m\u0113, a super-cool brewery created from a former tractor-trailer motor repair shop right on the Swannanoa River. It too got erased by Helene, which was a shame because the interior of that place was just fabulous, with thick wooden slab tables and engine blocks supporting the bar.<\/p>\n

At first blush, this seems like a great spot for an outdoor concert venue, as it\u2019s in an industrial area and not far from the Tunnel Road commercial strip. Perfect, right?<\/p>\n

Not quite. Look at it a little closer at it on a map, and you\u2019ll notice that the Kenilworth neighborhood lies not far to the northwest, the Oakley neighborhood not far to the southeast.<\/p>\n

It also didn\u2019t take long for comments and concerns to start flying about potential noise issues, including this Answer Man query I got last week:\u00a0<\/p>\n