Fed-up shop owner rents historical district spot to sex boutique
Filed under: Shopping
An Alexandria, Va. shop owner, frustrated by a two-year struggle with local government regulations impeding his renovation, has rented out the storefront to a sex boutique. According to the Washington Post, the shop, Le Tache (in English,The Spot), stands in Old Town amid stores with storied histories reaching back to the days when the first presidents were known to visit nearby Gadsby's Tavern.
Insofar as the business of sex is as historical as the story of man, perhaps the boutique fits into the district better than the confounding fathers might imagine.
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3-03-2009 @ 8:34PM
The Don said...
BRILLIANT move, he was fortunate to have the opportunity to tuck it to em!!!!
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3-03-2009 @ 9:27PM
merydith92 said...
Good for him! Stick it to the man!!!! Get over the "historical" crap... at least this way someone will get to use the building and from what I read it looks as though the new sex shop is doing well there!!! Keep America Free!!!
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3-03-2009 @ 9:59PM
larry cook said...
i tip my hat to you sir. now just hang a sign calling it read between the lines. of course the sign would show just a hand and 3 fingers.
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3-03-2009 @ 9:46PM
Mike said...
After 10's of thousands and years of fighting a zoning ordinance to put in an upscale, gated manufactured housing community on 40 acres which sat in the middle of a large site built community, I gave up and returned the property to the agricultural use for which it was originally intended. I leased it to a pig farmer. Ironically I was asked and finally begged, by the county and the neighbors to build the MH community. It's been 15 years and the pig farm is still there.
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3-03-2009 @ 9:49PM
notherROUND said...
Way too often you hear of local "Boards" squelching buisness for some rule or other. This is a chuckle.
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