Downtown Toronto strip club closes after almost 30 years in business. Toronto's strip club scene just got two steps closer to full extinction with the closure of a long-running adult entertainment venue on King Street West.
For Your Eyes Only will not be reopening post-pandemic like other strip clubs in downtown Toronto A representative for FYEO and its airport-area sister club, The Landing Strip, confirmed to blogTO on Thursday that both venues had recently closed down "solely for the reason that we sold the real estate.
FYEO's rep could not say who purchased the properties, only that he had been told neither would operate as adult entertainment clubs in the future. Provincial business records show that the club was first issued a licence to operate in April of The Landing Strip has been around even longer, since It's unlikely that either service will relocate, given how hard it is to get a license for strip clubs in the City of Toronto, where Chapter of the Municipal Code was amended in the s to state that the number of adult entertainment clubs shall be limited to Newer laws further prohibit clubs from existing within metres of a residential area, metres of a school or too close to various other businesses and services including churches and massage parlours.
In other words, unless FYEO transfers over its existing licence for the property, there's no way another strip club will pop up in its place at King St. Toronto is notoriously bad at supporting peeler bars, though the dwindling number of clubs in the city nay, the country may have more to do with financial challenges in an era of free, bountiful internet porn.
You can raise that number to about a dozen, if you count further out spots like Backstage Theatre in York, Diamonds Cabaret in Mississauga and the cluster of strip clubs surrounding Pearson. There were 47 strip clubs within city limits in , according to municipal data. Sadly for fans of going to the rippers, Filmores is also scheduled to bite the dust sometime within the next few years, when the building that houses it turns into condos.
