Glory Dayz, a 1980s-themed Malta nightclub that had a difficult opening over Labor Day weekend and ran into multiple disputes about nonpayment of bills, closed after about a month in business. The landlord said he evicted the club for failing to pay rent.

"He never paid me anything toward the rent," Mitesh Patel, who owns the Roosevelt Inn & Suites and other structures at 2955-61 Route 9, just north of Northway Exit 13, told me. The building that was home to Glory Dayz, previously occupied by Orchid's Caribbean Restaurant & Lounge, sits next to the Roosevelt and behind the unaffiliated, still-in-business 13 North Restaurant.

Patel said Glorz Dayz owner Michael Barry on paper owed him $12,000 for four months' rent, to cover the time when Barry was building the club, but that he would have taken $4,000, for 40 days' rent, and allowed Glory Dayz to stay. When he had not been paid anything by Sept. 10, Patel said, he exercised a clause in the lease allowing either party to provide a 30-day notice of cancellation. Patel said the official eviction date was Oct. 10. He said Barry also owed approximately $1,600 in utilities payments, toward which Barry contributed a check of about one-third of the due amount. The check bounced, Patel said.

"The landlord nullified the lease," Barry told me today when asked about the club's closure. He refused to say whether he had paid any rent. "The landlord nullified the lease," he said again. "We performed in accordance with it."

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Barry said he plans to reopen Glory Dayz "soon, very soon" at another location in the Capital Region. He declined to identify where, he said, at the request of his new landlord. Glory Dayz's final night in Malta was during the first weekend of October, Barry said.

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Patel told me that when Barry vacated the Route 9 building, he took furniture, fixtures and other items that belonged to Patel. Patel said they were valued at more than $16,000. Capt. Jeffrey Brown of the Saratoga County Sheriff's Office confirmed to me that Patel had filed a theft complaint and that the matter is now an active investigation with the department. Brown said Patel had not attached a value in his complaint to the allegedly stolen property.

In addition to Patel, others have alleged Barry stiffed them completely or otherwise did not fully pay bills for Glory Dayz, including an audio-visual company that repossessed its equipment after the first weekend and liquor distributors. The most vocal has been Dan Coler of the band Dashboard Anthem, which played opening night, Sept. 1, and alleged Barry paid half of the agreed-upon fee with a check that later was returned for insufficient funds. Coler, who told me last month that he had brought the matter to police, could not be reached this afternoon for an update.

Michael Gallitelli, owner of Metroland Photo in Albany, told me today he has a hearing with Barry in small-claims court in Malta next week to pursue a debt of about $1,400 for photos and frames Barry ordered as decor for Glory Dayz and did not pay for.

At Barry's request, another local musician who performed at Glory Dayz called me last month to say that he was paid for his services and was satisfied with his dealings with Barry.