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February 23, 2015 By SEO Admin

Burlesque joint or strip club? Chinatown wonders about the latest

The latest proposed addition to the roaring-back-to-life Penn Quarter-Chinatown area has some neighbors a bit rattled. They call the planned Royal Jelly nightclub a strip club. The developer calls it a future home to burlesque shows.

The club, eyeballed for 477 H Street NW, according to The Washington Post, comes by way of Ivan Kane, an L.A.-based nightclub owner whose joints have opened in Hollywood, Las Vegas and Atlantic City. The theme of all of them: A callback to the bawdy nightclubs that…