White Lightning Axiom: Redux

In the hinterlands of the Main-line, a forbidden fruit is being pollinated on a withered tree.

Battle lines have formed over a Chester County woman's proposal to bring an adult nightclub with live performances to a site near the King of Prussia mall.

Shannon Leach of Chester Springs wants to open Upper Merion Township's first "adult cabaret" in a vacant gas station at 1036 W. DeKalb Pike.

The site is across from the Valley Forge Golf Course, where a mixed-use development including a number of homes is planned by Realen Properties of Berwyn. It is also adjacent to a Home Depot that sells tools and building materials.

Leach's plans have angered neighbors, clergy and businesspeople, who object to its location and the clientele it will draw to King of Prussia.
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Plans filed with the township show that the club's first floor would include a "cigarette and champagne room." Space on the second floor would be added for a kitchen, dressing rooms and storage.

In a letter dated Jan. 10, the applicant spelled out the degree of nudity expected.

"Limitations on how sexually explicit the adult cabaret would be in terms of attire and live performances" would depend on Shannon Leach's getting a liquor license, the letter said.

"Absent a liquor license, the establishment would have to derive all of its revenue from the girls," the letter said, and attire and live performances would need to be "more sexually explicit."

Molly McGowan, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, said Tuesday that no application had been received for a liquor license at the site.

I've seen this kind of outrage before and it has nothing to do with what is proposed and EVERYTHING to do with the lack of self control, forethought or willpower. Of course, there will be the seedy element and the coincidental rise in crime. Perhaps they should just cut to the chase and pass and ordinance that would forbid entertaining this nature of patronage. It is obvious that the township has little need for the tax revenue from this manner of business. Those within the township who would like this kind of entertainment would certainly never speak up to condemn it. They already have their own mechanisms for sating the appetites that would shame them if exposed. No, I think it would be best to either let the business go up and consequentially fail. I drive past that place and getting into the location is a nightmare at best, unreachable at worst. There is no space for parking and although highly visible, most traffic in the region is transitory. Duplicity is giving this woman exactly what she wants ... publicity.