New club in Allentown PA.

Are the entertainers on the PP website still entertainers for the clubs or just stock models?

sam - I have never seen any of them. I assume they are models.

I wonder why allentown

TUSCL has now been updated on the name change.

hmm allentown isnt exactly that close to me its like a 3 1/2 hour drive but i might be going to philly soon so i might check it out then

Allentown is about an hour drive north of the northern suburbs of Philly. This club is in a pretty good location for access and there is NOTHING of quality within 20 miles. I think it will do well considering the junk that is there is making $$$. I should be up for an in person look-see in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned.

@sam: I've seen at lest two of the girls on the web site at Platinum Plus Columbia, but it's been awhile.

I heard they give change in $2 bills, maintaining the Platinum Plus "tradition".

Billy Joel is in Allentown just sayin

I talked to the day shift manager at the Columbia club on Thu and he said that they will be having their grand opening around the middle of November. I asked several of the dancers if they would go up there to work, at least for the grand opening and they said no. That the didn't want to do total nude.

A renovated strip club in east Allentown had something to celebrate at its porn-star-studded opening Thursday night — a judge ruled the club can expand despite neighbors' objections.

Platinum Plus, which replaced Erv's Ladies and Gentlemen's Club on Airport Road, has been tied up in a legal battle since April when it won Allentown's approval to triple in size and stay open until 2 a.m.

The neighbors went to court to overturn the city's ruling, but Lehigh County Judge J. Brian Johnson on Tuesday rejected their appeal, saying the city zoners ruled appropriately.

The decision came just in time for the club's grand opening party Thursday hosted by famed adult film star Ron Jeremy, with an appearance by award-winning porn actress Stormy Daniels.



Platinum Plus is bringing a "face-lift" to the adult industry in Allentown, said owner Ken Wood, who lives in South Carolina and owns 15[only 5 are strip clubs] other clubs.

That's little consolation to the neighbors involved in the lawsuit. They refused to talk about the case but admitted they are glad it's over.

They just wanted the club to close at midnight, said Dennis Pearson, who heads the East Allentown Rittersville Neighborhood Association, which was a party to the case.

"We don't want to become a recognized night-time district," Pearson said.

In his ruling, Johnson said because Platinum Plus was replacing an existing strip club that has had an agreement with the city since 1993, stricter laws passed last year to limit adult-use clubs to a midnight curfew don't apply. The club can expand to 15,000 square feet because of those previous agreements and because that won't bring it any nearer to a residential neighborhood, he wrote.

"I'm not surprised," Pearson said. "But it's something the neighbors wanted to try."

The legal battle was mired in allegations of deceit, namely that a competing strip club was footing the neighbors' court costs.

Neighbors said they didn't know who was actually paying for legal fees — only that it was a "third-party benefactor."

When the judge demanded to know, Brian Segel, a Realtor who helped secure a property for another soon-to-open club, said he was paying for attorney William Malkames to represent the neighbors.

Segel helped Josh Kesler and a silent partner acquire a Lehigh Street property that was once home to Scarlet's Grand International and will soon feature Savannah's on Hannah, described as an upscale topless lounge.

The judge's ruling is good news for Platinum Plus, whose attorney credited the victory to honesty.

"My clients will continue operating just as they always have, and that is by being open and honest about their intentions and developing strong relationships within the community that they chose to establish their business," said attorney Matthew Croslis of Allentown.

Now, the weary residents who have fought for years to prevent the proliferation of nightclubs in their east Allentown neighborhood, will probably drop the case, Pearson said.

"I don't think we're going forward," he said.