A “coming soon” sign has popped up on the website and Facebook page for the strip club proposed for the old Seven Seas Restaurant site.
“Work Hard, Play Hard. Life is for living,” is given as Pandora’s motto.
Thing is, the sign doesn’t exist. Yet.
The bricks and mortar sign at the site, 8914 Lake City Way N.E., is still the same as it’s been for decades. (The windows have been boarded up, though.)
Meanwhile, the SeattlePI.com has a story that Rick’s strip club, just up the street at 11332 Lake City Way N.E., might reopen as Chantal’s Gentleman’s Club. Seems that the same man who opened Jiggles on Roosevelt Way has bid at the auction for Rick’s.
Read the PI story here.
Lake City Way has always been a primary arterial … a way to and from other places … rather than a place most of the traffic on the street regard as “their neighborhood”.
The greater the ration of transients or commuters to local residents passing thru a neightborhood … the less investment in it as a community they have and the greater interest they (the overall population) have in it offering the transient pleasures or amusements … alcohol,. clubs, pawn shops, sex shops, hang out bars, gambling, topless espresso, etc. I might add that this also includes more “wholesome or purely functional need” providers like Grocery Stores, Drug Stores, etc. as well … in the mix …
Nothing like getting a wee bit of caffeine at a topless espresso on your way to work and picking up a new sex DVD and some bannannas on the way home … to go with the pizza and pop …
Simply put, since LCW is a huge transient commuter route … it will never be a “neighborhood” in the ususal sense …
It is a commuter bridge to and from other places.
@Cheddar, no it won’t and it doesn’t have to be if the neighbors help to make the change. I agree with Susan that the businesses that should be going in are trying to make Lake City Way a better place to live. I live just off Lake City Way and don’t want any “gentlemen’s club” anywhere near my neighborhood, or for that matter “gentleladies club”. Hope that we are able to get this turned around but hopes are dwindling.
We have some great businesses going in further north on Lake City such as a large brewpub. The neighborhoods along Lake City Way are trying to make it a better place to live but we keep getting pushed backward everytime we take a step forward.
Lake City, like Aurora and 15th NW, will always be a seedy urban corridor.
Next up is the Italian Spaghetti House that just went under. Do we rename it the Lake City Strip instead of Lake City Way? Yikes!
Lake City Way will always be a nasty street.. has been forever & I’ve lived here all my life. I wouldn’t hold your breath on it ever changing.
Don’t forget marijuana dispensaries, and naughty coffee stands…
I’m ok with gun stories and pawn shops, but the rest of the lot should be banned. It just drags the whole neighborhood down.
Why does LCW have to be home of check cashing, cheap motels, dirty book stores, gun stores, strip clubs and pawn shops? Come on!