More than 60 Cradock residents and other concerned citizens (Portsmouth) turned out for the civic league meeting where Whitney Saunders, attorney representing Paper Moon, presented his client’s plans. Paper Moon places a strong emphasis on security and maintaining a controlled and attractive environment meant to draw a “higher quality” of clientele, Saunders said.
He explained that dancers would be clad in outfits “like bikinis” and “always within view,” meaning there would be no closed rooms for patrons to meet with dancers privately. After pointed questioning, Saunders acknowledged that lap and pole dancing would take place.
Patrons as young as 18 would be admitted to the club, but only those 21 or older would be served alcohol. From an article in the Pilot
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Yea more "upscale clients." Like NFL and NBA types along with other celebrity wanna be's packing guns. Guess it would be too much to have paid security professionals (not just bouncers) at the door with metal protectors, It might not be a part of the decor or would ruin the atmosphere". Other than that go for it, nothing like capitalism at its finest.
Betsy you need to read this one. Forget the Jazz Club the SCCA would be the ideal location with a big stage, offices-rooms and dining venue for the likes of a Hooters. In an instant the annual 450K taxpayer bailout disappears. Downtown tourism skyrockets with real, live, spending visitors. The SNHS would agree downtown was a baudy haven for farmers, loggers and travelers back in the day. Next up for consideration, a casino at Lone Star Lakes.
You have got to be kidding me. Just what we need. The land of a thousand mexican and chinese joints and a "flop" shop. Great.
Don't we already have an adult toy store over on the west side of downtown in a strip mall? Well what are we waiting for. Tax revenue from a Paper Moon like operation would come streaming in and our little girl from the budget office would dance for glee on her desk. A side benefit Suffolk's Councilmen, lobbiests, lawyers and politicos will obviously be distracted from making deals at our expense.
More pole-dances is just what we need. Time to ask were we are going with downtown? The council seems to be out of touch and out of ideas. There is no vision of where our downtown is going and hos it will get real life.
The Mayor and her boys on council have not got a clue. They need to bump the payment to the SCCA to a cool million and invest more into the downtown. Do nto apporve this, the building should be adaptively reused for offices, condos, and on the first floor some kind of foody business. Time to turning things around and this may include turning out the present mayor and council flunkies. What have they done except raise fees, pad thier own pockets, and preened in front of the cameras. The article in the pilot is right, nothing is being done by the city to support downtown and it shows even if they mayor tries to twist the facts of such.
An official red light district would put Downtown Suffolk back on the national map not seen since the days of Planters. The name Mr. Peanut gets a whole new meaning. The SCCA has a business operation that is finally profitable. Tax revenue comes streaming in and it's a non-polluting green industry.
Never gon'a happen unless Councilman-Businessman Par is involved. All Suffolk all the time.
You are right, Parr is for Parr not Suffolk. I hope to vote him out this next year! Anyone running?
I'd bet that Tom Powell will definitely run against him (Parr). Mike Debranski may also run. I think Damiani had his curtain call last year.
ACORN has been around downtown looking to open an office. We hear on FOX News their Baltimore Office Staff were fired. Downtown is the ideal setting for them to relocate. They can help set up a red light district, register the same voter again and again, teach citizens how not to pay taxes and stop the city treasurer and banks from taking homes from deadbeats.
I imagine that Parr, our good mayor and hubby, including Bennett can find some office space for Obama's storm troopers and advisors..Anything for a buck huh folks. No matter who it is....
Make the JAZZ CLUB the ACORN Business Center. This will enable the political operations of the Suffolk Eight more understandable and acceptable.
Acorn found its way into the mortgage business through the Community Reinvestment Act, the 1977 legislation that community groups have used as a cudgel to force lenders to lower their mortgage underwriting standards in order to make more loans in low-income communities. Often the groups, after making protests under CRA, were then rewarded by banks with contracts to act as mortgage counselors in low-income areas in return for dropping their protests against the banks. In one particularly lucrative deal, 14 major banks eager to put CRA protests behind them in 1993 signed an agreement to have Acorn administer a $55 million, 11-city lending program. It was precisely such agreements that helped turn Acorn from a network of small local groups into a national player. And Acorn hasn't been alone. A U.S. senate subcommittee once estimated that CRA-related deals between banks and community groups have pumped nearly $10 billion into the nonprofit sector.
Given the economic fallout from the long efforts by advocacy groups to water down mortgage lending standards, as well as the controversy surrounding Acorn's mortgage counseling methods, you would imagine that politicians in Washington would be eager to narrow the scope of the CRA and reduce the leverage that community groups wield under it. But to the contrary, Washington is actually looking to expand the CRA once again.
Just like Suffolk.
Myabe this would stop some of our Constitutional officers going over to Norfolk near ODU and spending their money there.
The City will buy the Jazz Club and make it into the new Garbage Central Offices to devise more plans to spend your money.
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