Ziegfeld’s-Secrets building to be sold to developer

As we wrote in GLAA’s 2015 policy brief:

The planned soccer stadium at Buzzard Point will likely displace a gay-related establishment, Ziegfeld’s/Secrets at 1824 Half Street SW, which features adult entertainment and faces virtual impossibility in relocating without action by the Council and Mayor. We ruefully recall the club relocation bill of 2007, whose passage occasioned a round of mutual congratulations on the Council dais after it was amended into virtual uselessness. We hope that a suitable cosmopolitanism will overcome NIMBYism in that body, and that a solution may be found to serve the gay market and prevent the extinction of this legitimate class of entertainment.

To be clear, it is not the stadium itself, but related development, that will displace Ziegfeld’s/Secrets. When Blade reporter Lou Chibbaro asked me if the District should help the club relocate, I replied, “The District should help. It is ridiculous and sad that a cosmopolitan city like DC should face the loss of its adult entertainment because of hysterical bluenoses who cannot stop minding other people’s business.”