We purchased the Hot Club in the summer of 2003 and reopened the club as Rain in November of the same year.
Rain was an entertainment complex that featured three separate concepts under one roof.
The main room was called Rain. The concept was actually more of an imitation of The Rum Jungle located at the Mandalay Bay, but the name Rain was more popular and instantly recognizable
Rum Jungle featured water walls in the front of the club visible from outside and several water walls inside the club.
This first picture is of the Hot Club before demolition.
The house facade over the Main bar was the first thing to go.
Construction lasted for about 3 months
Rain remains one of my favorite nightclub designs. I incorporated the feel of Rum Jungle, which was one of the more popular nightclub concepts in the country at the time, with a design that I first saw used in Miami the previous year. This involved mounting LED lights to the walls and covering them with white Polypropylene. The color of the light would shine through and the polypropylene would glow that color. I had the idea of doing this design and placing black lights behind the poly instead of LEDs. The lights wouldn't change color, but the black light gave off an erie glow. The white plastic broke down the UV effect of the black lights and just glowed blue. (see pictures below)
Above the Main bar we built platforms where the House was.
We added a set of stairs in the back of the main room for better access to the balcony.
These are a couple of completed pictures
The most prominent feature of the Main room were the two water walls that were in the front of the room, The largest wall faced out the front window.
We shopped around for water walls to purchase. I got estimates of about $20,000.00
We built them for roughly $2000.00 each
We placed all of the pumps and reservoir tanks in the basement below the walls.
Here is a completed picture for the Grand Opening weekend.
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