. . "48447976"^^ . . . . . . . . . "Bechara \"Charles\" Khabouth is a Lebanese Canadian nightclub owner, restaurateur, music promoter, and hotelier. Controlling several Toronto-based hospitality properties and venues, he's been dubbed the \"King of Clubs\" due to his influence on the city's nightlife. In addition to Toronto, he also has venues in Niagara Falls, Montreal, and Miami Beach. Khabouth manages his properties through INK Entertainment, a company he founded while opening nightclubs in the mid-1980s, his first ventures in the hospitality business. He initially made his name via Stilife, a ritzy nightclub for the posh crowd at the corner of Richmond Street West and Duncan Street in Toronto that ran from 1987 until 1995 triggering what eventually developed into the city's Entertainment District. Still, Khabouth is best known and widely lauded for his association with The Guvernment, a large 60,000-square foot nightclub complex he launched in 1996 and molded into a famous spot that successfully channeled the energy of the local rave scene during mid to late 1990s and later continued as the focal point of Toronto's electronic dance music scene. Parallel to nightlife, almost immediately after establishing himself with clubs in the late 1980s, Khabouth also began launching upscale restaurants in Toronto, most of them as business partnerships either with local celebrity chefs or various Toronto restorateurs. By early 2010s, Khabouth decided to enter the hotel aspect of the hospitality industry by announcing construction of Bisha Hotel & Residence, an upcoming 100-room boutique hotel on Blue Jays Way in downtown Toronto's Entertainment District set to open in spring 2016. In addition to the hotel part, Bisha is to contain around 300 condominium units thus taking advantage of the 2000s and 2010s condo boom in Toronto. Since 2013, Khabouth has continually placed on Toronto Life's '50 Most Influential People in Toronto' annual list."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1020801978"^^ . . . . . . "Charles Khabouth"@en . "1998"^^ . "Bechara \"Charles\" Khabouth is a Lebanese Canadian nightclub owner, restaurateur, music promoter, and hotelier. Controlling several Toronto-based hospitality properties and venues, he's been dubbed the \"King of Clubs\" due to his influence on the city's nightlife. In addition to Toronto, he also has venues in Niagara Falls, Montreal, and Miami Beach. Since 2013, Khabouth has continually placed on Toronto Life's '50 Most Influential People in Toronto' annual list."@en . . . "2"^^ . . . . . . . . . . "1962"^^ . . "Hospitality entrepreneur"@en . . . . . . . "Charles Khabouth"@en . . . . . . . "Libby Eber"@en . . . . . . "17360"^^ . . ""@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Bechara Khabouth"@en . . "Charles Khabouth"@en . . "Bechara Khabouth"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "CEO of INK Entertainment"@en . . . . . .