The controversial strip club Diamonds, which opened in November in the place of the controversial strip club Mynt, didn’t supply an Oregon Liquor Control Commission investigator with requested information and paperwork. As a result, the club’s alcohol license application has been “inactivated,” a spokeswoman said Thursday morning.
The club, at 3390 N.E. Sandy Blvd. in the Laurelhurst
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The controversial strip club Diamonds, which opened in November in the place of the controversial strip club Mynt, didn’t supply an Oregon Liquor Control Commission investigator with requested information and paperwork. As a result, the club’s alcohol license application has been “inactivated,” a spokeswoman said Thursday morning.
The club, at 3390 N.E. Sandy Blvd. in the Laurelhurst neighborhood, joins a history of other clubs facing troubles at the location.
The Oregon Liquor Control Commission wrote a letterto the owners of Mynta year ago this month telling the bar, which had reopened after problems with an underage dancer, to stop giving away alcohol.
Diamonds was recently in the news after a Willamette Week story connected one of the owners to charges of pimpingin Spokane.
Before Diamonds and Mynt, the La Fortuna Mexican restaurant and nightclub operating at the site.La Fortuna closed in 2008 following a fatal shooting in its parking lot.
If Diamonds, which currently operates as a juice bar with nude dancing, wants to serve alcohol, it will have to start the application process again.
Meanwhile, another Northeast Portland strip club made headlines Wednesday when a 33-year-old, a father of five, was shot to death outside Club Skinn on Northeast 60th Avenue. A 21-year-old woman was also shot in the leg but is recovering.
Wednesday’s shooting marked the second fatal shooting outside Club Skinn in two years. The OLCC has launched an investigation to see if alcohol service played any role in the death, a spokeswoman said.
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— Larry Bingham