The downtown hotspot that began life as Club Eden will end it as Syn Nightclub.

Judgment Day came in the form of a unanimous vote by the city liquor board Friday evening to revoke Syn Nightclub’s license to sell alcohol, all but ensuring the club’s patrons — and their problems — will move elsewhere.

“They’re closed. That’s the short version,” said the club’s attorney, Damon Cassens.

The board’s 5-0 verdict came after a day of testimony in which city prosecutors painted the club at 217 E. Pikes Peak Ave. as a menace to public safety. Two liquor board members were absent. Click here for coverage of the board’s hearing via twitter.

Cassens said the owners haven’t decided whether to appeal.

The club was summoned before the board to answer for a March 7 brawl that police said involved up to 100 people, as well as earlier allegations of serving alcohol to underage customers, one of whom was allegedly carrying a loaded gun.

Police described the club as a magnet for gang activity, regularly attracting members of the Crips and Bloods.

The brawl spawned a chaotic scene in which responding officers were overwhelmed by the size of the crowd and had to wait for back-up before they could get in the front door.

“They knowingly permitted this to happen,” board Chairman Charles Stephens said during deliberations, echoing comments by other board members.

After issuing the club’s death sentence, the board set an April hearing to continue a probe into the allegations about underage drinking.

“They’re going to do their absolute level best to make sure that there’s not only a stake driven through (Syn’s) heart, but they’re buried in concrete,” Cassens said.

Cassens claims Syn was unfairly singled out by the city, pointing to police records showing that two other clubs — Cowboys and Rum Bay on North Tejon Street — had more calls for service this year than Syn.

According to documents prepared by the Police Department, which Cassens provided to The Gazette, there have been 58 calls for service at Syn Nightclub between January and March 12.

Two other downtown clubs – Cowboys and Rum Bay on North Tejon Street – had more calls for service during the same period, according to the documents.

Cowboys had 65 and Rum Bay had 60. The two clubs, as well as Gasoline Alley, which had 14 calls for service during the same period, are all in the same location.

“Yet my club is the problem?” he said.

Anthony Moore, a prosecutor in the City Attorney’s Office, said no other establishment in the city drew trouble on the scale of Syn’s brawl in early March, which eventually involved half the patrol officers on duty in the city that night.

The business practices at Syn, he said, “fostered a hostile environment.”

“I don’t fear being shot anywhere on the North Tejon corridor as I do at club Syn,” police Sgt. Jeff Strossner said.

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