X-Rated Shops Moving To Suburbs

As rents in revitalized downtown areas increases, adult businesses are being forced out to the suburbs.

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April 20, 2002, 11:00 AM PDT

"'As land values have risen downtown, porn shops have basically been pushed out and have had to find secondary locations,'" said Michael Beyard, a senior fellow at the Urban Land Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based real estate education and research organization. "Suburban strip malls, because of their low rent, have become favored locations."Barbara Lukermann, a land-use planning expert and senior fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute, said adult-oriented businesses seek out cities that don't have restrictive ordinances."

Thanks to Tom Collins

FULL STORY: X-rated shops moving to suburbs

Monday, April 15, 2002 in St. Paul Pioneer Press

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