DEARBORN, Mich. – Repeated police calls to Post Bar in Dearborn have caught the attention of City Council members.
Two weeks ago, the city's Nuisance Abatement Board ordered the bar to hire Dearborn police officers at its own expense.
Early Sunday morning, there was a brawl near the bar.
"If there's an issue going down at the Post Bar, not all the resources should be taxed to a point where I can't get a police presence to my house," Dearborn City Council Pro-Tem Thomas Tafelski said.
Tafelski said early Sunday morning every Dearborn police officer was deployed to Post Bar because of a massive fight.
After the numerous police runs, the establishment appeared before the city's Nuisance Abatement Board.
"We tried to work out an agreement to monitor hours, monitor capacity and have some police officers available," Post Bar's attorney, Hugh Davis, said.
The city ordered Post Bar to hire two police officers on busy nights at the bar's expense, but Post Bar said it couldn't afford the hefty bill.
"Your client can't afford not to do it because you're operating under the new set of rules that unfortunately we had to put in place because of bad behavior," Tafelski said.
The bar's liquor license could be revoked. The attorney for Post Bar said that might have more to do with Ford investing millions of dollars next door to the building.
"They're about to redevelop that whole area, so a lot of these buildings and bars are going to be gone, and what the Ford Motor Company development people have to do with all of this, I don't know," Davis said.
"We as the city need to protect Ford Motor's investment, we need to protect Mr. and Mrs. Smith's investment, and we need to keep the public safe," Tafelski said.
More than three city blocks are going to be redeveloped as Ford invested $60 million into a mix of office, retail and residential space.
The property manager said the two businesses next to the Post Bar -- Dearborn Wig and Yogurtown -- will be demolished as part of the redevelopment.