Land Grab Pirates

A HUGE THANK YOU to NO LAND GRAB I'll have to keep checking to be sure but I think that Bruce Ratner is the developer -- perhaps height challenged. So many of those when short guys can be so damn sexy ... if they just embraces the toys the gods gave em ... and that whole Ratner name ... well, you can take that one away yourself ...........




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Chicago Sun-Times, Jan 14, 2001 by Mike Mulligan


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TRIPLE-X FIVE: Tampa, long regarded as more a series of strip clubs and waffle houses than an actual city, is looking to change its image for Super Bowl XXXV.

According to a report this week, Tampa police plan to crack down on an expected surge in illegal lap dancing at the city's nude dance clubs during Super Bowl week. Since December 1999, when the Tampa City Council unanimously passed an ordinance requiring dancers to stay six feet from customers, there have been about 200 arrests for lap dancing. Convictions carry a maximum $1,000 fine and six-month jail sentence.

But some club owners have ignored the ordinance and plan to showcase the city's infamous attractions to a national audience. Many clubs are launching Super Bowl-related promotions and hiring extra dancers for an around-the-clock bump and grind.

Mons Venus, perhaps Tampa's most notorious club, will be open 24 hours a day, beginning Wednesday, the week of the Super Bowl. Owner Joe Redner says he won't comply with the ordinance. In the past, he has paid legal fees for employees and customers arrested for violating the ban.

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Larry Wolfe, owner of the Seven Seas on Kennedy Boulevard, said the Super Bowl and strip clubs were made for each other.

"The Super Bowl is just an incredible celebration of all things American, as it should be," Wolfe said.

Police are promising multisquad raids and arrests for dancers and their customers and have issued a warning to players.

"If you're a football player, whatever, if you're going to do it, you're going to be taking a trip," Tampa police detective Bret Bartlett said.

Added Tampa Mayor Dick Greco: "Every law gets enforced all the time. What difference does it make during Super Bowl?"

GETTING DEFENSIVE: In his end-of-season retrospective news conference, Seattle's Mike Holmgren admitted the Seahawks were hurt by the free-agent losses of defensive linemen Phillip Daniels and Sam Adams, but he also said he erred in changing the roles of defensive end Michael Sinclair and

This guy (no land grab) is missing some things that are happening to me but that might be because if you read the history of Chicago, what is happening to me and others like me in Hillsborough County is part of Chicago's unique style of governing as I read on the web. Tampa that's what it IS: you act more like Chicago now and New York and other places where the citizens are used to being kicked around by gangs that are city-supported and where the gangs run the cities right out front .... Oh man, this is so cool. Tampa of yesteryear was safe but boring for some, I guess and now they got it all .....