Plans scrapped for Old Strathcona strip club
CBC News
Posted: Aug 16, 2011 6:28 PM MT
Last Updated: Aug 16, 2011 6:47 PM MT
Plans were scrapped to open a strip club in this space just south of Whyte Avenue. (CBC)
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Plans to open a strip club in Edmonton's Old Strathcona area have been scrapped.
On Aug. 2, the city of Edmonton granted a business license allowing the owners of X Bar to open a strip club in the space formerly occupied by Rehab, east of Calgary Trail and 81st Avenue.
Further review of the application found the owners needed additional permits to open a strip club in that location. They decided not to apply and will open a regular nightclub instead.
Coun. Ben Henderson said he was relieved to hear the news.
"I was puzzled to begin with why anybody would want to be opening a strip club in the Whyte Avenue/Strathcona area. It doesn't feel like it fits with the demographic of the people who are there or the kind of business models that I think are in place," Henderson said.
"It would not have been good news for the area."
Although Old Strathcona is home to many bars and restaurants, people who work in the area expressed ambivalence about the prospect of a strip club opening nearby.
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