GATOR'S RETREAT

Hello, to anyone out there reading this who's in New Orleans right now.

In that scene showing the outside of a posh nightclub, GATOR'S RETREAT, is that a real nightclub? I'm almost certain it really isn't a nightclub. It's either someone's rich downtown mansion, or the entrance way into an indoor shopping and restaurant mall, or could be leading to a real large shop or restaurant.

NOTE:
At the beginning of the movie, when Terence McDonagh (Nicholas Cage) is staking out GATOR'S RETREAT, you notice that there's no people waiting outside to go in. It looks deserted. But at the end of the movie you see a crowd of young adults hanging around outside. Initially it didn't make sense to me. But upon introspection it's for this reason. Nicholas Cage fires his .44 magnum revolver into the air to frighten the young man into staying put instead of running away. It made better sense to ensure that the street outside Gator's Retreat and the parking lot were completely empty to ensure no witnesses to what transpired between lieutenant McDonagh and the two hapless, nightclubbing couple. At the movie's end, there's a large crowd of young people waiting to go inside the nightclub. McDonagh ambushed another unsuspecting nightclubbing couple in the same spot in the parking lot. Because there's a lot of potential witnesses outside the nightclub, the inference is that this time, McDonagh will just simply frisk the couple for narcotics he can confiscate and consume for himself, but there will be no sexual shenanigans nor any firing of his pistol in the air.