GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) - A Lincoln-based pornography website operator is looking for the best spot near Grand Island to open a strip club.
Shane Harrington says the locations he’s considering could be bought, remodeled and opened within four months.
Harrington told The Grand Island Independent (https://bit.ly/1BznG3Z ) that he’s been in the adult website business for about 14 years and has run other clubs.
He says his daughter has a scholarship to attend Hastings College, so having a business near Grand Island would make it convenient for him to visit her.
City regulations likely mean the club won’t be located inside Grand Island, and Harrington says he understands objections people might have.
“It is an adult business. I don’t want it next to schools and churches,” he said. “It doesn’t need to be in the middle of a town.”
If the adult club is located outside Grand Island city limits, then the owner will only have to pay an amusement license, which allows law enforcement to enter the establishment at any time during business hours.
“Any adult entertainment club - some of them tend to draw a criminal element, non-upstanding clientele,” Chief Deputy Sheriff Chris Rea said. “But that’s not all of them. When they are run right, it’s a good business, and we don’t have an issue if he runs a good, clean business.”
Harrington also said that he wants to run a good, clean business.
“We want a classy gentleman’s club - one where the girls aren’t drunk or high and they aren’t prostituting,” Harrington said. “The girls who work for me drive Mercedes-Benzes, live in houses that they’ve bought, and they make real money.”
“We don’t have moral judgments against businesses. That’s up to other people to decide. We just enforce the laws,” Rea said.
Harrington said that the women who work in his clubs range in age from 19 to 33. He also said that some of them go to college while working for him, and then graduate on to a “big girl” job.
No alcohol will be served at Harrington’s club, but he will likely offer bus transportation to the nearest bar “every 30 minutes” for patrons who want to have alcohol.
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Information from: The Grand Island Independent, https://www.theindependent.com
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