Colleen's on the Parkway -- one of Center City's popular wedding/mitzvah venues -- is due to close in early March after 25 years in Park Towne Place's South Building.
Barry S. Slosberg Auction will sell the equipment on site at 10 a.m. March 13, a Slosberg rep tells Food & Drinq.
Park Towne Place and Colleen's owner Les Friedman have been embroiled in litigation for months over the lease. Friedman tells Food & Drinq that Park Towne wants a fitness center in his space. Park Towne and its attorney have not returned repeated phone calls.
Meanwhile, Friedman says he is notifying clients and will return deposits. He says he will work out of the Holiday Inn on Packer Avenue in South Philadelphia, which may satisfy some clients. They're out of luck if the Holiday Inn has a booking for that date.
Colleen's was also known as Les & Joey's when Friedman's then-partner Joe Volpe worked for him. Volpe left a few years ago to open the Cescaphe Ballroom in Northern Liberties and recently got the contract at the Curtis Center.
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the wedding reception was great but the holiday inn had dirty restrooms and hotel rooms were not ready for bride and groom and families
If you plan on a good following you btter fine a better place to work out of. i would not recommend this place to anyone
thanks you
Posted by leona | July 26, 2008 10:16 PM
Posted on July 26, 2008 22:16