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Danbury Billiards to Open Monday

It took a year, but Danbury Billiards is set to go. The low-slung lamps hang over the pool tables, and the food and drink will be delivered over the next few days.

Danbury Billiards is poised to rack 'em up Monday after a year of renovations and work at its 28 Federal Road Location.

This is the first pool hall to operate in Danbury since Boston Billiards closed in 2009.

This isn't a pool table tucked into a bar, where people challenge strangers by stacking quarters on the table, said Gregory Nunez, 34. Nunez owns the business with his partner Gus Collado.

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This is a former warehouse and corporate headquarters now renovated to open up its 8,800-square-feet to make room for 20 pool tables, private pool rooms, a bar and a kitchen.

If you want a table here, you pay by the hour. The manager turns on the hanging light over your table and hands you a tray of balls. The ques are on the walls, along with the Danbury photographs shot by Robert Souza, a friend of Nunez.

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"I used to be at Boston Billiards two or three times a week. It was packed," Nunez said. "Danbury needs a pool hall."

The building is the former A.M. Rizzo Group headquarters between Karl Ehmer and ASCO Plumbing and Heating Supply.

The Building Department issued a certificate of occupancy for the pool hall, and Nunez was meeting with food and liquor suppliers Monday and Tuesday to buy drinks and food.

The food will be finger food, Nunez said, such as hamburgers, fries, wings and other items. The bar will sell the usual suspects, Bud, Corona, and everything else.

The towering Danbury Billiards sign has been standing in front of the pool hall for more than two weeks. The building and all the pool tables have been renovated. All the winter sand is blown from the parking lot.

"We've had people walking in for weeks, asking if we're open. Sometimes they're carrying their own ques," Nunez said. "We'll open up and see what happens."


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