A local landlord, looking to build a strip club on Stimson Avenue in conjunction with an adult entertainment company, has withdrawn the application in a $425,000 settlement with the city of Athens, The Post has learned.
The money will come from the city’s insurance company and no tax dollars will be used to pay the settlement, according to a joint news release from the city and the plaintiffs in the case.
The plaintiffs, Three Wide Entertainment owner Christopher Stotts and Demitrios Prokos, a local landlord, originally filed for a zoning permit in 2007.
The permit was denied multiple times by the Board of Zoning Appeals. Stotts and Prokos then sued the City of Athens, according to a previous Post article.
“If my tenant is satisfied, then I am satisfied,” Prokos said in the statement.
Athens City Law Director Pat Lang was also satisfied, saying in the news release: “The City is pleased that there will not an ‘adult entertainment business’ on Stimson Avenue.”
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