Bar Fly Rooftop Bar Lands Above Room Service At Camp North End

A new rooftop bar called Bar Fly has opened above Room Service at Camp North End, bringing pool, darts and frozen slushies to the top of the historic Charlotte complex. The temporary concept is throwing its launch celebration Friday with a queer icon dance party featuring drink specials and a DJ spinning until midnight.

Bar Fly is the work of Rachel Hopkins, who owns Room Service and Black Moth Bars, teaming up with Jackie DeLoach, owner of Hattie's Tap & Tavern, according to Axios. The rooftop sits directly above Room Service and can be reached by taking the stairs on the side of that lounge, per the outlet's report. It's located at 701 Keswick Ave #105 in Charlotte.

The drink menu leans on Room Service cocktails alongside wine, sangria, beer and rotating frozen slushies, the report notes. On the food side, small bites include balsamic caramelized onion dip, house pickles, marinated olives, hot dogs and something called roadside caviar, which is made with house Cajun boiled peanuts.

Games, Karaoke and a Rooftop Built for Hanging Out

Beyond the bar, Bar Fly's rooftop is stocked with a dart board and a pool table, giving visitors something to do between rounds. The venue is also set to host events including karaoke, trivia, bingo, movie nights and dance parties, the outlet reports, with weekend programming planned through September.

For now, Bar Fly is open Fridays and Saturdays from 5pm to midnight and Sundays from noon to 6pm. As a temporary concept, its run is tied to those weekend hours rather than a permanent build-out, following the model Hopkins already established downstairs.

A Boutique Lobby Vibe, One Flight Down

Room Service, the boutique hotel-inspired cocktail and small-bites lounge beneath Bar Fly, first opened at Camp North End on November 14, 2023, according to Axios Charlotte. Hopkins designed the space to recreate the casual-yet-upscale feel of a boutique hotel lobby, the outlet reported at the time.

Hopkins' history at Camp North End goes back further than Room Service. She launched Black Moth Bars in 2018 as a mobile bartending business before setting up a permanent home in a retrofitted Airstream camper at the Boileryard in June 2020, per WSOC TV. That concept specialized in custom event cocktails made with locally sourced North Carolina spirits.

DeLoach brings her own neighborhood following to the collaboration. She's the longtime owner of Hattie's Tap & Tavern, a dive bar at 2918 The Plaza in Plaza Midwood known for weekly bingo and karaoke nights, according to Charlotte On The Cheap.

A Factory, a Missile Plant, Now a Rooftop Bar

The pairing of Hopkins' boutique cocktail sensibility with DeLoach's laid-back bar culture lands at a site with an unusually layered past. The property was originally built in 1924 as a Ford Motor Company assembly plant designed by architect Albert Kahn, producing more than 300,000 Model T and Model A cars before the factory closed during the Great Depression, according to the Levine Museum of the New South. The original coal-powered boilers and factory structure remain preserved on site.

The site later picked up its distinctive name during the Cold War, when the U.S. military converted the former WWII Army Quartermaster Depot into the Charlotte Area Missile Plant for guided missile production in the 1950s, as Queen City News explains. The heavily secured site produced Nike missiles during the nuclear arms race.

ATCO Properties & Management bought the 76-acre site for $15.6 million in December 2016 from Rite Aid, reopening it to the public as Camp North End in 2017, according to Business North Carolina. The property had sat behind security fences for decades during its industrial past.

A Fast-Growing Campus Under New Management

Bar Fly's arrival follows a leadership shift at Camp North End. Atlanta-based real estate firm Jamestown assumed operational management, leasing and creative design at the property in February alongside owners ATCO Properties & Management and Shorenstein Properties, as Hoodline previously reported. The 76-acre campus is undergoing phased redevelopment, with master plans permitting up to 3 million square feet of adaptive reuse and new construction.

The campus already drew more than 1 million visitors in 2025 and now includes over 500,000 square feet of redeveloped commercial and office space with more than 40 active tenants, per that same report. That kind of foot traffic gives operators room to test out underused spaces, like the rooftop above Room Service, without committing to long-term buildouts.

Bar Fly also lands amid a steady stream of new food-and-beverage openings at the complex. Chef Darius Johnson opened Sage & Citrus at Camp North End in April, adding locally sourced grain bowls and smoothies to the district's dining lineup, Hoodline noted in an earlier report on the chef's launch. North Carolina's status as an Alcoholic Beverage Control state also shapes how bars like Bar Fly stock their shelves, since spirit distribution runs through a state-controlled system, according to Salon.