{"id":5501,"date":"2020-01-17T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bathhouseblog.com\/?p=5501"},"modified":"2020-10-31T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T15:55:11","slug":"crew-club-set-to-close-after-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bathhouseblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/17\/crew-club-set-to-close-after-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Crew Club Set To Close After 25 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After serving the gay community for 25 years, the Crew Club has decided to close its door. The owners Ken Flick (70) and DC Allen (63) received an offer to sell the building, and the price pitched to them was an amount they couldn&#8217;t refuse.<\/p>\n<p>From their Facebook page is the following statement<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for 25 years of love, support, patronage and community. On February 29, 2020, The Crew Club will close its doors. This was a heart-wrenching decision for us.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been an honor serving the DC community. Our true measure of success and joy was not from any financial reward, but came from a love for this community, the opportunity to offer a safe and liberating space to our membership, and the ability to provide employment to our loyal and hardworking staff.<\/p>\n<p>Farewell,<\/p>\n<p>DC and Ken<\/p>\n<p>Allen told the Washington Blade<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe sold the building four years ago at the height of the market and we were trying to work out a lease-back program but it just didn\u2019t seem to be working the way I thought would be a profitable thing to do,\u201d Allen told the Blade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the building was worth a lot more than the business,\u201d he said. \u201cSo it wasn\u2019t feasible. All that would be left after the building sale is just the name and people don\u2019t want to buy just the name,\u201d Allen said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd also, my husband is not feeling particularly well and I have had some health problems,\u201d Allen said. \u201cSo I thought it was really time for us to retire. And frankly, I\u2019ve had a really good run for 25 years. And I think we have a pretty good name and I want to keep it that way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> the day after the closing announcement was made, the buyer had backed out and a new enterpreneur stepped in to take over the business. But then Covid19 hit and the entire deal fell apart. So now the business has officially closed and the building is up for sale. See below for more.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2020\/10\/05\/crew-club-building-for-sale-or-lease-owners-may-not-reopen\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Crew Club building for sale or lease; owners may not reopen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2020\/01\/22\/with-crew-club-closing-whats-the-future-of-the-gay-bathhouse-in-d-c-and-beyond\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">With Crew Club closing, what\u2019s the future of the gay bathhouse in D.C. and beyond?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>After serving the gay community for 25 years, the Crew Club has decided to close its door. 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