Baltimore and clubbing

I read an article today on The Baltimore Sun that was interviewing Jon Han, who is a promoter of a megaclub here in Baltimore named Palma. This guy is completely arrogant and delusional and believes that he will have no issue succeeding in this town. For example:

What's Palma's biggest challenge?

There's no challenge for us. We just do what we do best on a daily basis. We bring high-end DJs, and people travel to Baltimore. No one else does it here. I have no competition - no challenge. ... Everybody went against it, and I made it happen, and I did it and that makes me special. That makes me want to prove that the Baltimore crowd is a really good crowd - not what people from D.C. think. ... But I proved all these people wrong just on the grand-opening day. And I'm going to continue to prove them wrong.

Now this guy is full of shit. Here is my comment on this article:

I had some friends who went or tried to go to Palma on opening night and the reviews were not glowing. I had some hope that a mega club would succeed, but at this point and after reading this interview I have some doubts.

When it comes to clubs, Baltimore is boring whether or not you go to a place serving cheap drinks or to a location where a bunch of plastic people pretend to be upscale and rich and just want to be seen. Everybody wants to hear the same crap you hear on the radio or they want to go to a location where there are a lot of "pretty" people. There is no in between and there is no quality in this town.

There was some quality in this town, and that was when Mosaic was open before the grand renovation that got rid of the entire staff that made the venue what it was. In addition to Sonar and the Paradox, Mosaic was bringing in well-known US and international DJ talent for quite some time. Not only that, but at the time it was a classy place that everyone was welcome to be a part of due to its lack of pretentiousness.

I am beginning to see this same attitude in a lot of clubs that are opening up, and this article confirms this. This kind of attitude may get people into the clubs in DC (I have DJ'ed there and it does), but trust me it will not work in Baltimore. If you want to succeed in this city, check your attitude.

People in Baltimore will never, ever, go to a venue where they feel like they have to pretend to be rich and upscale and/or they just won't go at all. People can tell whether or not a place is cool and chill or if it is stuck up. Baltimore does not do stuck up here. When people go out they want to party and have a good time, not stress out about how they look or how they act.

This is not to say that people won't try to look good when they go out, but attitude is everything.

I still have to hold judgment until I can get there myself, but I doubt that I will have a good time, based on what my close friends have told me.