Managed operator JD Wetherspoon is to re-open the former Blu Bambu nightclub in Sunderland today (Tuesday) after a £1.2m investment - and is believed to have the longest licensing hours in the estate.
The new pub will be named The Cooper Rose, after a Victorian vaccination needle, and have a capacity of nearly 1,000.
It’s the company’s third pub in Sunderland - it runs The Lambton Worm pub, in Low Row, and The William Jameson, in Fawcett Street.
The new site will be branded as a Lloyds No 1.
"It’s a Wetherspoons during the daytime,” said manager Nik Chapman. “Then from about nine or 10pm we almost turn it into a nightclub.”
The venue is licensed from 8am every day, until 1am on Wednesdays; 2am on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays; 3am Mondays; and 4am Fridays and Saturdays.
The Cooper Rose building used to house Durham Book Centre, before it was turned into Beach nightclub in 2001.I t underwent a million pound refit in 2006 and was re-named Blu Bambu.
