http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=5cb6be4d-6a05-4efd-8fdf-e32b9b8731a8&k=20986
The City of Vancouver has bought the Drake Hotel, a Downtown Eastside strip club.....
Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan announced Thursday the city had paid $3.2 million for the hotel at 606 Powell St.
The end of an establishment that has been around forever.Sullivan said the city bought the hotel as part of its long-term strategy to reduce homelessness. For more than three years, the hotel's 24 rooms have been vacant. Only the hotel's 220-seat pub, which featured exotic dancers, continued to operate.
But the hotel's gritty history changed this week after the city agreed to buy it and refurbish the rooms in the short term for people on assistance. In the process, it decided NOT to renew the hotel's liquor licence.