The development of SATIN will bring more than 100 NEW jobs to the downtown area. In addition, we will employ more than 150 independent contractors to provide entertainment, security and other services at our club.
For more information on our development plans, please come to our neighborhood meeting on Saturday August 29, 2009 from 1-2pm. The meeting will be held at the 117 West Pittsburgh Ave. facility.
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Contrast that with all the jobs you'll destroy by discouraging other new businesses from locating nearby!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your post anonymous - as it turns out in studies conducted in three different regions (North Carolina, Indiana and Fulton County Georgia) - these kinds of impacts weren't reported. Studies in these regions found that in many cases property values and development increased in neighborhoods with a well-run adult entertainment establishment.
ReplyDeletePlease give specific citations for those alleged studies and explain how their supposed findings are applicable to an urban setting such as Milwaukee.
ReplyDeleteWhere are all these employees and contractors (and patrons) going to park since there'sd no off-street parking there?
ReplyDeleteThe studies I referred to in my previous post:
ReplyDeleteThe Charlotte, NC study was a 3 part study completed jointly by UNC and Duke Researchers Land,McCarthy, Renski and Hanna from 2001-2004.
Charlotte is the market most analagous to Milwaukee with a population of 716,874.
The Fort Wayne Indiana Secondary Effects Study was completed in 2004 by UC-Santa Barbara Professor (and UW Madison alum) Daniel Linz - that study looked more specifically at property values. Fort Wayne is a smaller market with a population of only 251,591, but is still an urban area.
Finally, in 1997 the Fulton County Georgia Police Department commissioned its own study of the adult entertainment establishments in its jurisdictions expecting to find that these clubs required more intervention than more "tradiitonal" bars and taverns. They discovered the opposite was true.
These studies are all summarized briefly, but well in a 2005 article in the Journal of Planning Literature by Judith Lynne Hanna titled "Exotic Dance and Adult Entertainment: A Guide for Planners and Policy Makers."
I support your business 100%. You will bring jobs here, you will bring traffic to other businesses in the neighborhood and you will add people to the street traffic in the neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteThe neighbors like "anonymous" who leave posts here will try to subvert your every move, because they believe their paranoia is more important than your right to operate a business. They think that any group of more than a couple of people on the street is reason to call police, file false complaints and try to stop you from doing business.
More business traffic means less transient and criminal street traffic, the kind of criminal traffic that occurs in quiet deserted city areas like mine when businesses are slow. Duh.
Patrons of your club aren't going to go out and break into cars, or houses. Their mere presence will however deter the crime that is happening from continuing at it's current pace!
I say, right on, good luck and I'll see you at the grand opening!!
Cheers,
and
Good Luck!
I'm signing this anonymous cause I'm afraid of my crazy anti business neighbors!!
To the anonymous poster at 4:34 PM, Aug. 26th,
ReplyDeleteYou think that someone who goes to a strip club is also going to want to go to the kitchen/bath store nearby? Or the art gallery nearby? What planet are you living on?
More business traffic brings less criminal street traffic? Would you care to back that up with facts and studies or is this just another fantasy of yours?
Those of us who actually live in that neighborhood have seen first hand how nightclub patrons did indeed go breaking into cars in the area. We are indeed pro-business, but not the kind of business that brings in a bunch of drunken men who haven't grown up yet.
I completely agree with the above post. It will deter the crime that currently exists there, such as the shooting of two cops. If you look at Silk, it looks and is more high scale then the APC and Solid Gold and it seems as no one has a problem with those. Bring on some jobs to lessen the unemployment, money to surrounding businesses to lessen closures...thus increasing the unemployment...and increasing taxes to pay for the unemployed. Its a snowball affect and Satin can have a positive affect on this. Start the renovations already
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to respond to the poster who asked for some statistical data about decreased crime rates around adult entertainment establishments, once again referencing the Land, et al North Carolina study:
ReplyDeleteThe study looked at the number of crime incidents in neighborhoods within a 500 and 1000 foot radii of adult enteratinment clubs - they contrasted those neighborhoods with demographically similair "control" neighborhoods that did not include adult entertainment establishments - they found that the neighborhoods with adult entertainment consistently had lower crime rates and saw no adverse impact on either surrounding business profitabiliy or continuity.
I realize your comment was addressed to a different posted, but I just wanted to make you aware of those findings.
I've always wanted to be a DJ at a club like this. If everything falls into place with your plans, when could I apply?
ReplyDeleteTo the poster who asked about a job at SATIN- once we get approval we plan to begin renovations and open as quickly as possible so we'll be hiring quickly.
ReplyDeleteWe'd love to talk to you and others about job openings, but we need your help to get the doors open.
Make sure you let your alderman and others know that you'd like to work in this new club.
Will you be offering a benefits package to any of your employees? Do the employees at your other clubs receive benefits?
ReplyDeleteTara Thornton
We do offer a benefit package to our full time employees at the existing clubs, and anticipate offering the same or similar benefits to employees at the new location.
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