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The club operates around the clock. This week, the year-old owner flew up from his part-time home in Wilton Manors, Florida—a longtime gay village—to oversee Pride preparations. Just think of it as a sleepover. Other gay bathhouses in D. But under a contract brokered in , Allen plans to sell in three years to Douglas Development, which owns the property to the immediate south of the Crew Club, another across the street, and more up 14th.

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Its owners are hoping to open this month pending another inspection. The biggest issue, one long-time veteran of the industry says, is escalating real estate prices in metro areas that have enough gay population to sustain them. Their succession plans are very weak. Holding who has his own succession plan in place says in some cases a straight relative has continued a gay bathhouse business — he mentions a straight owner who formerly had clubs in Dallas, Austin and Milwaukee, who ran them for years but eventually decided to sell to hungry real estate developers rather than modernize or update the clubs.

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