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2004–2007 · BOUNDARY: THE COUNTY'S BUYOUT RECORD, DOCUMENTED; THE HOME GROUND NEGATIVE
The checklist's last class, tested as a civic record: the adult bar belongs in a bar leg not as titillation but as government — licences granted and fought over, ordinances amended, and, in this county's documented case, a city buying the trade out. The record stands on South Michigan Street in South Bend, in the Tribune's own pages. In May 2005 the paper reported the city buying the former Dudes 'N Darlins site, and corrected itself on 24 May 2005 in terms this build prints because they are the record: the site was for sale, per Sharon Kendall of the city's Community and Economic Development Department, and the building had been demolished by the Urban Enterprise Association — a city-funded, city-staffed body that is not an official city entity — with planner Jim Frick hoping a tax-paying retailer or office would replace "the strip club." In 2006 the paper's demolition account widened the buyout: the city had bought the Glo Worm, the Quarterback Lounge and the Teasers strip bar for 241,250 dollars in late 2005, with the Kitty Kat lounge's demolition clearing the same corridor. And in 2007, reporting the Torch Lounge's licence renewal, the paper closed the loop: the city had purchased the properties of three adult businesses from Patricia Colley to settle a lawsuit over the city's amended adult business ordinance, Colley keeping the liquor licences themselves to sell — one of them the Quarterback Club's (the room had been the Ace-Hi, then the Lipstick Lounge, at 724–726 South Michigan Street), bought by Texas Roadhouse Holdings for its Erskine Commons restaurant. A strip club's licence ending its life pouring drinks at a chain steakhouse is the county's adult trade in one documented sentence. On this ground, the test is negative across every shelf the audit named — the ATC permit record, the county zoning record and the press record: no adult bar, gentlemen's club, strip club or buyout attaches to the Granger CDP at any date reached. The trade, its regulation and its buyout are the sister city's civic record entire.
From the South Bend Tribune's record as indexed in the ProQuest archive: "City buying former strip club" (May 2005) with the Tribune's correction of 24 May 2005; "Kitty Kat lounge set for demolition" (2006 — the 241,250-dollar purchase of the Glo Worm, Quarterback Lounge and Teasers); "Torch Lounge license renewed" (2007 — the Colley settlement, the Quarterback Club licence's passage to Texas Roadhouse Holdings). The home-ground negative: the ATC permit record, county zoning record and press record as described, November 2026.