SkyBar on fire

ENAR

In the early morning hours of Thursday, May 28, the famed rooftop club SkyBar was hit by a fire that destroyed three quarters of the venue and caused severe material damage, according to its general manager Paul Aoun. “While it is too soon to assess the exact amount of the damage, we estimate it to be in the millions of dollars, especially since we were just done with the annual maintenance renovations and ready to open for the season during the first week of June,” says Aoun. SkyBar first opened in 2003 on the rooftop of Ain El Mreisseh’s Palm Beach Hotel, before moving to the rooftop of the Beirut Exhibitions and Leisure Center (BIEL) in Downtown Beirut, more specifically to the rooftop of the BIEL Pavilion which they rented, according to Aoun. With a customer capacity of 1,500 and a rotation of 2,500 on a busy weekend evening, SkyBar