Two years ago Jesse Zuefle bought a long-vacant Washington Street building with the intent of opening a nightclub.

Zuefle dropped those plans and instead looked across Washington Street where he will open Club Diablo at the site of the former Washington Street Grill on May 26. The opening comes just in time to take advantage of the "Thursday at the Square" concert season.

The building is between Mohawk and Huron streets and almost next door to the soon-to-open Holling Place Apartments.

Zuefle is best known for operating Second Skin in Allentown and for being security chief at the Continental nightclub in downtown Buffalo. He closed Second Skin in April and left the Continental earlier this month to focus entirely on Club Diablo.

Also, Zuefle has sold the other Washington Street property to developer Eran Epstein, who plans on converting the 16,000-square-foot building into his latest condo project.

Epstein is developing the Holling Place Apartments and is working on a similar project in Buffalo's Broadway-Fillmore district and converting the YWCA Building on Franklin Street into condos.