Don't know the dynamic of that street, but event spaces in an entertainment district should be pretty hard to keep empty, especially for the sort of gig where you turn off most of the lights for most of the night, feed the crowd bar-grade liquor, and let the band or DJ rip.
Haven't been around them for a few years, but the Sooke Legion seems to be an outlier: the user base skewing older, but with, by observation, a healthy ongoing influx of CAF recently-retireds. Fairly regular and well-subscribed live music and other open-door events. That said, it's in an unusual location, just isolated enough not to be entirely outcompeted as a social venue by commercial entities, but close enough to Esquimalt to enjoy an outsize by modern standards pool of current and retired pers in its neighbourhood. Not sure how their charters work, but the RCL might want to look at shuttering everything that can't at least demonstrate ongoing appeal to 50 year old current or former members.
