SAN FRANCISCO: Tenderloin school gets new neighbor: sex club

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 2/16/10 | C.W. Nevius

[SmithL]

Marie-France Ladine, principal of the San Francisco City Academy in the Tenderloin, got an unpleasant surprise last week. She learned that the faith-based school's new neighbor is going to be the Power Exchange sex club.

"Our school is right next door," she said. "We can hear the music through the wall."

Actually, that music was from the previous tenant, the Pink Diamonds strip club, and if you were a world-class optimist, you might say that the Power Exchange is an improvement. Although the sex club has been controversial, it hasn't had the outbreaks of violence that made Pink Diamonds notorious.

"One evening we had a youth group," Ladine said. "And as soon as they got there, shots were fired. They were diving on the floor."

Terrance Alan, who owns the building at 220 Jones, next to the Academy, says it isn't his fault there's a school next to a club that sponsors sex between consenting patrons.

"An adult business has been open at that location continuously since 1952," Alan said. "The school moved in there with full knowledge that this was an adult business."

True, but the Tenderloin neighbors complain that there was no community outreach, no advance warning, and no chance to speak out against a sex club opening next to a school that has students from kindergarten to eighth grade.

"There are 3,500 kids in this community," said Ladine. "They're poor, they're scared, and a lot of them don't speak English. They have no voice."

[HamiltonJay]

Even by San Francisco standards the Tenderloin is a dump.. if it wasn’t for all the import/export that comes through that town for folks to suckle off of, it would look like Detroit.

[HamiltonJay]

I’m not sure what you are talking about, CAPA is nowhere within 2 blocks of the largest club in the region, its on 9th Street.

The only club close to it is called Blush, which has been a strip club in one form or another for many decades... and while it does more advertising than most in town it is not remotely one of the largest, in fact its one of the smallest in terms of size. The place is maybe the size of most folks gamerooms.

The largest in square footage right now is probably Cheerleaders, which is out in the strip districts, nowhere near CAPA.

If it makes you feel morally better, they did buy up and tear down another club in the downtown area to build that african american center that they spent untold gobs on.

In all honestly, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has cleaned up downtown a huge amount in the past 20 years, much of the Cultural District as it now stands was not all that long ago nothing but porn theaters, adult bookstores and problem bars not all that long ago.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Well, at least now you have a 10-year supply of salt.

[reardensteel]

I grew up in and around San Francisco. Yes it is chock full of people that would not like this website one bit, but you would be surprised at how many would. For one, there is a huge asian population - they are not liberal or gay by any means.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I’ve got family there and in the Bay Area, and my cousin just had a baby in SF a few weeks ago. From a scenic standpoint, it is one of the most beautiful areas of the country, but personally, when I visited, I never felt comfortable there. The politics and values there are viscerally offensive, almost as if they delight and revel in immorality, and it is ugly and in-your-face. The joke that they consider themselves tolerant goes only so far as to be accepting of similar-minded offensiveness. To call the place “liberal” is an insult to the word, “fascistic” is far more appropriate and fitting.

You cannot have a place where people vote 90% the same way and of the mindset they champion and consider it a good place. There was still hope for the city in the 1970s, but they chose the path of darkness. As for its Asian residents that might seem a possible future hope for some level of rationality, I’m afraid even they have been effectively assimilated into the ultraleft fascist hive mindset. It will likely take an act of God to set the place straight again.