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Ilitch Organization Buys Former Drag Queen Bar in Cass Corridor

December 08, 2017, 9:30 AM

There's a rich history to a vacant joint that an Ilitch family company has just purchased, Louis Aguilar of The Detroit News reports:

A former drag-queen bar where the Grammy Award-winning band The White Stripes played their first show is part of another quiet, mass purchase of Detroit land by an entity linked to the billionaire Ilitch organization.

The building that once housed the Gold Dollar bar is among the properties on the 3100 block of Cass Avenue purchased in 2015 for $2.2 million in a single sale, according to public records that were made available only recently. The properties were then transferred a year later for $1 to Cass Revival LLC, whose 2211 Woodward address is the downtown Fox Theatre.

An entity called Urban Horticulture, LLC, was listed as the 2015 buyer from then-owner Joel Landy. The sale included the former bar, one of three vacant buildings, and empty lots on Cass between Charlotte and Peterboro streets.

The bar closed in 2001. 


Read more:  Detroit News


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