The Westin finally dropped their pathetic lawsuit against the Nook. This is what happens when a city decides it will not let corporate bullies destroy our culture for their own profit. Stay vigilant because we know exactly who they are now.
February 13, 2017
Final supporters
After attempting to work collaboratively to address the Westin's baseless noise complaints, the Nook Amphitheatre and all of Austin music is in jeopardy. Because the Nook operates within legal sound limits, the Westin's 12 months of harassing noise complaints have been without merit and unpersued. But instead of collaborating on a guaranteed joint solution, the Westin sued the Nook for music as civil nuisance.
Austin is now a place where international corporate giants come to profit from our culture and our taxpayers, yet would prefer to shutter local businesses than work with them to achieve mutually beneficial results.
Sign this petition to tell Mayor Adler and the City Council to take action -- by local ordinance or otherwise -- to prevent new big cororate interests from moving into a protected entertainment and music distric and then usurping control over that very entertainment and music from which it seeks to profit.
Don't Let The Westin Kill Austin's Weird!
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
December 30, 2016
Reached 100 supporters
December 29, 2016
December 28, 2016
The Westin is trying to bully our local music scene into silence while they profit off our reputation. We are about to hit one thousand signatures so blast this link out right now to prove they cannot just walk over us.
646 Comments
I think what the Westin is forgetting is that without Austin Entertainment district, its not Austin and they will loose more business. They knew about the music before building and they should embrace it with their guest and use it as a selling point, not a crutch.
What did the Westin expect? They knew very well that it was going to be noisey. It'd be like buying a house that has a backyard backing up to a highway and suing the Department of Transportation because it's loud all night. This is a classic case of bullying.
It is ridiculous for the Westin to build next to an existing music venue then due to their poor construction to insulate the hotel from sound that meets the legal limits they are suing the owners of Nook! This lawsuit should be thrown out as baseless & frivolous.
I love The Nook and hope it remains open. I hate seeing our city destroy what it is famous for, which is live music. I have played shows at this venue multiple times and have seen amazing artists perform here with a full house! This place must stay.
As somebody who knows this company, I am not surprised by this action. But I am disappointed because they are directly making money off of these music venues. Don't build a hotel with crappy windows and then blame the pre-existing neighbors for your problems!!
If they still exist? Their page is dead for 5 years. But i totally agree with the point that its not wrong for WESTINto say it's bothersome, but it us totally wrong anywhere in America to decide you want to live in an area but then complain cows bring flys because you moved into a rezoning place south if a street but north of it its still rural. Same here. The music district became popular for its electic vibe? Leave the fancy English. The definition us anarchy. A district where either anything goes. Like red-light districts in France. Or you have sound bleed/ing, which means venues are close to each other without benefit of sound walls ir have echo from improper materials. Like when promoters in an effort to attract n please every one they can, will put trance, house, jungle, dubstep etc, not only in to close of a measured distance proximity to each other, but also wrongly aiming their subs or really the the cabinets in general, so that sound wavelengths not necessarily intelligible, still mix in between the ranges of the next rooms music. Turning that into a steaming pyle of turd that is in such frequencies to totally ruin the ability to decipher either beat, vibe or solos. I suspect that inside of the Westin, only sound comes through., be it vibration, making items rattle & zzzzzz or as a never endin
Screw the Westin. Live on live music!
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The Westin finally dropped their pathetic lawsuit against the Nook. This is what happens when a city decides it will not let corporate bullies destroy our culture for their own profit. Stay vigilant because we know exactly who they are now.
February 13, 2017
Final supporters
After attempting to work collaboratively to address the Westin's baseless noise complaints, the Nook Amphitheatre and all of Austin music is in jeopardy. Because the Nook operates within legal sound limits, the Westin's 12 months of harassing noise complaints have been without merit and unpersued. But instead of collaborating on a guaranteed joint solution, the Westin sued the Nook for music as civil nuisance.
Austin is now a place where international corporate giants come to profit from our culture and our taxpayers, yet would prefer to shutter local businesses than work with them to achieve mutually beneficial results.
Sign this petition to tell Mayor Adler and the City Council to take action -- by local ordinance or otherwise -- to prevent new big cororate interests from moving into a protected entertainment and music distric and then usurping control over that very entertainment and music from which it seeks to profit.
Don't Let The Westin Kill Austin's Weird!
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
December 30, 2016
Reached 100 supporters
December 29, 2016
December 28, 2016
The Westin is trying to bully our local music scene into silence while they profit off our reputation. We are about to hit one thousand signatures so blast this link out right now to prove they cannot just walk over us.
646 Comments
The indoor ballroom plays at a louder decibel limit than the Nook plays at. Such a lawsuit is baseless and without merit. Westin should promote local culture especially as the REASON for building in that location is due to the local culture.
I think what the Westin is forgetting is that without Austin Entertainment district, its not Austin and they will loose more business. They knew about the music before building and they should embrace it with their guest and use it as a selling point, not a crutch.
What did the Westin expect? They knew very well that it was going to be noisey. It'd be like buying a house that has a backyard backing up to a highway and suing the Department of Transportation because it's loud all night. This is a classic case of bullying.
It is ridiculous for the Westin to build next to an existing music venue then due to their poor construction to insulate the hotel from sound that meets the legal limits they are suing the owners of Nook! This lawsuit should be thrown out as baseless & frivolous.
I love The Nook and hope it remains open. I hate seeing our city destroy what it is famous for, which is live music. I have played shows at this venue multiple times and have seen amazing artists perform here with a full house! This place must stay.
As somebody who knows this company, I am not surprised by this action. But I am disappointed because they are directly making money off of these music venues. Don't build a hotel with crappy windows and then blame the pre-existing neighbors for your problems!!
If they still exist? Their page is dead for 5 years. But i totally agree with the point that its not wrong for WESTINto say it's bothersome, but it us totally wrong anywhere in America to decide you want to live in an area but then complain cows bring flys because you moved into a rezoning place south if a street but north of it its still rural. Same here. The music district became popular for its electic vibe? Leave the fancy English. The definition us anarchy. A district where either anything goes. Like red-light districts in France. Or you have sound bleed/ing, which means venues are close to each other without benefit of sound walls ir have echo from improper materials. Like when promoters in an effort to attract n please every one they can, will put trance, house, jungle, dubstep etc, not only in to close of a measured distance proximity to each other, but also wrongly aiming their subs or really the the cabinets in general, so that sound wavelengths not necessarily intelligible, still mix in between the ranges of the next rooms music. Turning that into a steaming pyle of turd that is in such frequencies to totally ruin the ability to decipher either beat, vibe or solos. I suspect that inside of the Westin, only sound comes through., be it vibration, making items rattle & zzzzzz or as a never endin
Screw the Westin. Live on live music!
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The indoor ballroom plays at a louder decibel limit than the Nook plays at. Such a lawsuit is baseless and without merit. Westin should promote local culture especially as the REASON for building in that location is due to the local culture.