From The Gold Club To God's Club



the Tuscaloosa News reports that the ATL's Gold Club, former playpen for Patrick Ewing, Andruw Jones and Eric Bischoff, will reopen as a church.

What was once a house of sin will soon become a house of worship.

A nondenominational church will lease the Gold Club building and hold its first services there early next year. The infamous Atlanta strip club was shut down by the federal government after a sensational racketeering trial in 2001.

Church members will start cleaning out the building this weekend.

"We're going to take something that was a mess and turn it into something good and usable," said the Rev. Dan Garrett of the Christian Church of Buckhead.

The club was closed after owner Steve Kaplan pleaded guilty in 2001 to racketeering charges in a case that featured strippers, mobsters and pro athletes.


(Mr. Clean, embracing the challenging of taking something that was a mess and making it good and useable).

Posted: Fri - December 19, 2003 at 06:55 PM      

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