Seth Parker presents, fresh off the press
Justin Timberlake’s Twelve Thirty Club
The photo session
The design credits matter on a room like this, so let me set them down properly. AvroKO of New York did the interiors. Gresham Smith was the architect — and also the executive architect for all of Fifth + Broadway, so the venue and the development it sits in share a set of hands. Dowdle Construction built it. And the operator is Author & Edit Hospitality, Sam Fox’s company — not Fox Restaurant Concepts, which he sold to The Cheesecake Factory in 2019, carving this club out of the deal for himself.
The Credits
from the recordLiner Notes
the record, in fullThe Credits Nobody Printed
Four Rooms
Thirty-eight thousand square feet, opened in stages — the Honky Tonk in July 2021, the rest by September 28. The Honky Tonk holds the street level. Honorary Member is the mezzanine, a fifty-person lounge with a paid membership behind the name. The Supper Club seats 400 beneath an 1,800-bottle wine wall — a wall, mind you, not a cellar; the bottles are part of the architecture. The Rooftop looks out over Lower Broadway and the skyline. Four rooms, and no two of them light the same way. I photograph rooms for a living — that’s the whole assignment in one sentence.
Second Pressing
Five years in, the club is open and Timberlake is still a partner. In late 2025 they announced a second Twelve Thirty Club for Austin — 35,000 square feet in a former U.S. Post Office on West 6th, due in late 2027. Texas gets the sequel. The original is here.