La Bamba in Simpson Bay is closing and this was the last night. No more Category 5 Band and dancing in the sand! I know a few members here will miss this spot. New development coming there soon.

Thank GOD!!!!! Can this be true?? Why other than the noise nuisance!!!! Anyone know more?? Thanks, Jerry

There is a big new development going to be built on the land there. It has nothing to do with the noise. Maybe more noise will be coming in the future! We will have to wait and see. Several other businesses in the area may be affected as well.

I never understood how they stayed in business. There were always just a handful of people there when I patronized the place in June. I'm sorry for the band, tho.

Any concrete word on what kind of development? Speculation in the past was possibly some type of medical/training facility.

Where is/was this? I can't picture it.

It was on the beach down behind Topper's near Atrium and Royal Palm.

Linda, when they first opened a few years ago, they got a big crowd as we have been there and couldn't find a seat. We haven't been there in a while, but they are being forced to close as the land is being redeveloped.

JD, there are several different rumours at the moment, but a medical facility is still one of them. Something will be posted soon I suspect, so stay tuned.

Thanks for your info Elizabeth. Sad about the band. Really enjoyed them.

What will be, will be, I guess, but if they build that medical facility there, I have no idea what the traffic will be like!! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Sick.gif" alt="" /> The food was terrible there, but we did enjoy the band a couple of times. Hopefully they will play somewhere else.

We missed going while we were there.
We enjoyed the band on Sunday nights.They were very good.
Sorry to see it end.

I remember before it was La Bamba, he was serving drinks and renting out jet ski's. Then Hurricane Omar hit and partially destroyed the place in 2008. I don't know if the same person rebuilt to what it is today, but remember the loud music one year, either 2010 or 2011 at the Atrium. If I remember right also, isn't that the location of a boutique hospital coming to the island?

Supposedly a medical facility, hotel, restaurant, etc. on that small piece of property but the owner of the property no longer has a nephew in power so it remains to be seen if it still moves ahead. The government changed again about 6 weeks ago & the new ministers took office last week. Out with the old & In with the old....SXM government is one big carousel that just keeps spinning & no one ever gets off they just change horses every so often.

I love your comparison in the last statement. Very visual! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />

Purrrfect analogy, thx. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/dine.gif" alt="" />

Sad to see them go. We're doing a story on the land swap that was / is involved in this. It is unrelated to the American Clinic...but we're also working on an update on that. May be in the next SXM Weekly News if we get the info in time.

Oh No!~ We loved Category 5 there. Years back I heard - a destination/tourism medical facility - eg cheap plastic surgery etc, was being built there.

That is still a possibility, but we will have to wait and see what they will do with all that land.

Best news we could of ever dreamed for!!!.Always wondered why that prime piece of beach was not developed. So glad to hear it is gone. Maybe we can enjoy our patio and get some sleep on Wednesdays and sundays now.Thank to whoever shut it down.

But what will take its place? What's that saying: the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know?

Do you remember Indiana Beach when it was in The Greenhouse location?

Not sure where "your" patio is but a high-rise might just block your view of anything. How enjoyable would that be?

ruralcarrier
It was Indiana Beach with a Harrison Ford motif.

Sorry, wasn't that what he said?? I remember it. It was kind of a stupid concept, for SXM.