By Emily Ferguson, Westword | Your Mom’s House was seized by the City of Denver, according to a notice posted on the Capitol Hill venue’s door on Wednesday, December 17.
The club at 608 East 13th Avenue has been the subject of multiple allegations that it did not pay workers and performers; at least nine former employees have filed wage claims with the Department of Labor since January, when Jillian Johnson bought the majority stake of the venue.
On December 17, the venue owed the city $29,820.57, according to Laura Swartz, the marketing and communications director for the Department of Finance. “The vast majority of this – $28,479.25 – are unpaid sales taxes; $1,341.32 is unpaid occupational privilege tax, which is a tax employers pay,” she notes. “The unpaid sales taxes date from as early as December 2023.”
Swartz adds: “When businesses charge customers sales tax but then do not submit that sales tax to the city, the city is responsible for becoming involved. We try to work with taxpayers, often for significant periods of time, to ensure they can continue to operate. Before the city reaches the stage of having to issue a warrant, we attempt to reach a business by phone, mail, email, and in person. Warrants are only issued after repeated attempts to collect taxes from the business fall short (in this case, since December 2023). We want to see every business in Denver succeed, and warrants are an absolute last resort.”
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Doug Bohm on Your Mom’s Place
I was really hopeful for this place because of the history.
I saw some of my first shows in Denver in the mid-90’s there when it was Pegasus and a couple other names that slip my memory then it was Snake Pit. A fucking legendary dance club building scenes around musical sub genres. Everyone had their night. It was DJs but I lived a block away and could stumble home.
Then it was Beauty Bar. Then 2 other things maybe before Your Mom’s House.
I think the booking concept was exciting and ambitious. Everything from punk to earthy world beats. It was ambitious but during an economic downturn, public apathy toward going out, and a few partnership mishaps with public blow ups, it was doomed early on.
It saddens me to see another venue suffer under the weight of the regime but when the smoke clears, something will rise from its ashes again.
That I’m sure of.
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[Thanks to Alex Teitz for contributing this article! https://www.femmusic.com]