In Nashville the Sexually Oriented Business Licensing Board started enforcing new guidelines in 2006.
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He said independently owned clubs are giving way to large corporations, such as the publicly owned Rick’s Cabaret. LaRosa said local ordinances and community activists can also play a role in closing strip clubs. “…It’s not a booming industry anymore.”īachelor, bachelorette parties mean big business in Nashville “It’s basically a mature industry that has seen growth level off,” said John LaRosa, Marketdata Enterprises president. They’re probably going to be office or high-rise residential or hotel, depending on the location and the owner’s objectives.” “As development goes forward and most land values get higher, the income generated by that square foot of dirt is greater than what can be provided by that adult entertainment,” said Larry Frankenbach, a vice president with Vastland. “So the highest and best use of some of those properties is not going to be adult entertainment. Déjà Vu’s location could be redeveloped into condos among a mix of uses, while the former home of Brass Stables Jockey Club in Printers Alley is within the footprint of a planned boutique hotel development. In Midtown there are also questions about the future of Gabrielle’s VIP Club, after Vastland Cos. Beyond that, its stay could be extended only with permission from the new property owners who plan a luxury hotel. For instance, under terms of the June 2014 sale of the home of Cabaret Royale in the area south of Broadway, that club can remain until spring 2017. The list of strip clubs could dwindle further when leases under which some of the remaining businesses continue to operate expire. Sale of Nashville D�j� Vu site to open up downtown's 'front door' “Some of the sellers are thinking, ‘we’re near the peak of the market, so I ought to sell now.’ ” “We’ve certainly come a long way from $60 a foot in 2008 until now, where things are generally trading in the order of $200 to $250 a foot in the inner core,” said Tom Frye, a veteran Nashville real estate broker. Other clubs have closed after property owners cashed in on rising real estate values. Still, the deal marks the latest in a string of real estate transactions involving Nashville-area strip club properties.
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Under terms of the sale, the strip club will have to find a new home after 18 months as the new property owners seek to redevelop the high-profile site.ĭéjà Vu plans to relocate downtown, and a representative for the strip club said its business is booming. The most recent shakeup to the local strip club industry was the announced sale this month of the longtime home of Déjà Vu at 1214 Demonbreun St. “I see no correlation between the growth in our convention business and adult entertainment," Spyridon said. "As a matter of fact, (Nashville) may be the best example of the opposite (the adult entertainment) business has been dying, and we’ve been on a five-year rocket ship.”