New Restaurant For 13th & Locust?
So... the infamous strip club site on 13th and Locust (owned by the equally infamous Frank Palumbo) seems like it will quit the Signatures legaacy in favor of a restaurant. The Inquirer reports that a new "restaurant and dinner theater" will open in the space and, judging from the quotes they gather, it sounds it will be a non-adult entertainment space:
He's a pretty classy operator," the judge said in a brief telephone interview. "I'm impressed with what he's done."Judy Applebaum, head of the Washington Square West Civic Association, said she believed the new restaurant would be "only a positive" for the neighborhood and said the group had no problem with Coleates' involvement.
"He has a history of running very successful restaurants," she said.
Further, Applebaum said, "there will be life on that corner. There has not been life there for years."
Hoewever, a member of the group who will be running the restaurant spent almost two years in prison after siphoning $2.7 million dollars "from a drag show in Honolulu called Boy-lesque," per Inquirer. So who knows? Maybe some of the 13th & Locust sleaze will remain.
Former strip club has new tenants [Inquirer]
Comments
I wouldnt give JD a dime of my money. He claims to be big in the gay community, but all he does is take their money, literally. Crook. Everyone in Philly should know about this
Posted by: Michael T. | March 7, 2008 07:48 PM