With UP FRONT Event Center's closing, we're referring all potential clients to the Crystal Event Center, only 4 miles away. They are an affordable alternative to hotels and other "high-end conference centers." They're a good team and friends of UP FRONT. Crystal Ballrooms and Event Center 4947 West Broadway Crystal, MN. 55429 612-804-3267 www.CrystalEventCenter.com  Up Front Event Center has been forced to close due to the fallout of an Eminent Domain vote by the city of Brooklyn Center in December 2004, only 3 months after receiving our Certificate of Occupancy. The owners of Brookdale Square (Heritage Investment) filed a lawsuit against the city in October of 2005. Subsequently, the city then reversed it’s own vote, as of December 2005. The lawsuit states Heritage knew in 2002 of the city's plan to implement Eminent Domain yet this information was not disclosed to Up Front when a 5-year lease was signed in 2004. The Eminent Domain condemnation vote in 2004, caused many churches not to rent here all throughout 2005, a café and catering business not to sublease here, as well as, long-term future bookings not secured all throughout 2005, due to the condemnation proceedings news coverage in the Sun Post, BCBA Buzz newspapers and Channel 12.  With the city's rescind, lease negotiations with the owners ceased, the building was vacated and is now for lease. Legal actions are pending. More on this later…