Verdant

Verdant is a nightclub owned by Thea Queen and previously run by Tommy Merlyn. Oliver Queen used it as a cover for his vigilante operations, with the Arrowcave located in the basement.

History
Shortly after returning from Lian Yu, Oliver Queen decided to open Verdant to provide an alibi for his nighttime vigilante activities at the former steel factory. His base of operations, the Arrowcave, was built underneath.

After Tommy Merlyn was cut off by his father, Oliver hired him to be the manager of Verdant.

Verdant was initially going to be opened around January 2013, but was burned down by Garfield Lynns, delaying its opening until a later date.

In February 2013, Tommy held a tasting at Verdant while auditioning potential chefs for the club.

Thea Queen convinced Roy Harper to accept a job at Verdant and he was hired as a busboy. Steve Aoki DJ'd at the grand opening of Verdant in March 2013.

Tommy paid an inspector to not investigate the club's basement, where the Arrowcave was located. After a partier at Verdant, Veronica Sparks, died from using Vertigo, Detective Quentin Lance investigated the club. Tommy was able to cover the Arrowcave by passing it off as storage. Afterwards, Tommy quit as manager when he and Oliver had a falling out.

After the Undertaking, Thea took over Verdant as owner and manager. Several months later, the Hoods attacked the club in search of Oliver. Roy tried to stop them, but they escaped after kidnapping Thea.

When Laurel Lance faced disbarment after being fired, she went to Verdant and got drunk while telling Oliver and Thea of her predicament. Thea eventually called a cab to take Laurel home.

When Sara Lance returned to Starling City, Thea hired her at Verdant as a bartender after Mandy quit. After Laurel recovered from her alcoholism, Sara helped her fill out an application for Verdant, though Laurel was rehired by the DA's office soon after. At Verdant, Thea caught Roy making out with an employee, Becky, much to her heartbreak, and angrily broke up with him (which was part of Roy's plan, under pressure from Oliver).

When Moira Queen was running for mayor, she held her campaign rally at Verdant. Thea made a statement at the rally to lure Roy, under the influence of Mirakuru, to Verdant in hopes of getting through to him. He attacked the club and nearly strangled Thea but was eventually sedated and captured by Oliver.

After Queen Consolidated was bought out by Isabel Rochev, Thea's tenancy at the club was terminated (in large part due to her stubborn refusal to sign a form that would have protected her family's assets) since the steel factory in which Verdant was built was an asset of the company. Following Oliver's loss of Queen Consolidated and Thea's departure from Starling City, the club was closed indefinitely, though the Arrowcave remained operational.

After Thea returned to Starling City in late 2014, she used money from Malcolm Merlyn's estate to buy the deeds to the steel factory, likely from Ray Palmer, and reopened Verdant. She hired Roy as the assistant manager.

Thea had difficulty finding a suitable DJ for Verdant's grand reopening. Chase successfully DJ'd at the opening and was officially hired. Carrie Cutter hired a hacker, Kirby Bates, who figured out that Verdant was the Arrow's base by using an algorithm. Carrie attended the club's grand reopening and began looking around for the Arrow. Oliver called Carrie and arranged to meet her elsewhere, after which she threatened to kill everyone in the club if he did not show up. It is unknown if Team Arrow has changed any routines to avoid getting found by an algorithm again.

Captain Lance and the SCPD invaded the club on a manhunt for the Arrow and discovered the Arrowcave in the basement, though only Roy's fingerprints were found. As a result, the club was shut down for sometime and is no longer used as Team Arrow's base of operations.

Team Arrow lured a resurrected, soulless Sara to Verdant by using Thea as bait. After a brief battle, Oliver used a tranquilizer arrow to sedate Sara.

With Thea serving as Oliver's chief of staff when the latter became the mayor of Star City and eventually leaving the city with Roy and Nyssa al Ghul, it is currently unknown who's management Verdant is under now.

Alternate reality
In the alternate reality created by the Dominators, Verdant still existed under the management of Thea, similar to the real world.

Known employees

 * Becky

Former employees

 * Roy Harper (assistant manager, former bus boy; faked his death)
 * Chase (DJ; deceased)
 * Sara Lance (bartender; resigned)
 * Mandy (bartender; resigned)
 * Tommy Merlyn (manager, resigned; prior to his death)
 * Oliver Queen (founder and owner)
 * Thea Queen (owner and former manager; left to track down and destroy the world’s Lazarus Pits with Roy and Nyssa al Ghul)

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Trivia

 * Oliver previously wanted the club to be named "Queens", after himself.
 * The final name of the club, "Verdant", means "green", alluding to Oliver's secret identity.
 * One of Oliver's policies at Verdant is that drugs are not allowed in the nightclub.
 * It is likely that Oliver created Verdant not only as an alibi for his nightly activities, but also to gain business experience in the future.
 * Oliver hired Steve Aoki for the opening, stating that he dated the latter's sister before being shipwrecked.
 * Kirby Bates, a hacker recruited by Carrie Cutter, was able to use an algorithm to deduce the Arrow's activities back to the club. This is the first time someone has made the connection between Verdant and the Arrow.