“We were thinking about a month,” Penna said. It will take a little more time before doors open. 25, but the sale hadn’t been finalized and neither he nor McDonald responded to subsequent questions on the matter from Georgia Voice until Sunday.
Penna made a previous announcement about buying Burkhart’s at an Armory reunion show at Amsterdam on Feb.
Oscar’s owners Chris McDonald and Marco Penna confirmed the details of the sale with Georgia Voice at the bar’s Easter Drag Races event on Sunday, saying that they closed on the sale the previous day and will be renaming it 1492, after the address of the bar. The owners of Midtown Atlanta gay bar Oscar’s have bought Burkhart’s, the longtime Ansley Square bar that closed in February after a controversy involving racist Facebook posts made by the bar’s then-owner.
