As a downtown Local - I have been going to commonwealth for about 3 years now. Before it was a great place to grab a drink or 6 on the weekends, listen to the djs upstairs, and enjoy yourself. On various instances I even reserved tables for both bottles or bar tab minimums. Now they have made some horrible changes. They now charge 20 dlls per guy to just be able to go upstairs, when usually you would have to wait in line a few moments to go upstairs but it wasnt that bad. not sure what the new management staff is doing. I work downtown, I live downtown, but unfortunately now with the new " club like" process it isnt a fun bar that it used to be. other downtown techies like myself feel the same way.