The reason for the outage was later determined to be a failure, ostensibly by the electrician who installed the main electrical panel on the outside of the building, to properly weatherproof it. The final straw, following a significant slowdown in business after Baltimore Pride ended in June, was a power outage caused by torrential downpours. In a statement posted on the website, King, his co-partner and husband Greg King, and Bob Gasser - the forces behind management company 4 Crazy Guys, LLC - said the Eagle had closed in part because of an ongoing dispute with the Parrish family, who owns the building where the Eagle is situated, and partially to a rogue lender who took them to court to demand his his share of the money back, forcing the one-year-old bar to take a significant financial hit when they had to pay legal and court fees to defend themselves. “And then we woke up to hundreds of messages of love and support.” “ It was just like the end of everything,” he says.
When the Baltimore Eagle abruptly closed on Wednesday, July 25, the mood was “doom and gloom,” according to General Manager Chuck King.