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CLOSE The Americana Lodge in downtown Redding , California, closed in January after hundreds of alleged code and safety violations , and now The Hignell Companies hopes to repurpose the building. Wochit Architectural renderings of the proposed remodeling project to turn the closed Americana Lodge into The Lofts. (Photo: Russell Studio) Plans to convert the shuttered Americana Lodge in downtown Redding to apartments come before the city Wednesday afternoon . The project has been hailed as a catalyst for the area since The Hignell Companies of Chico announced it was purchasing the former motel late last year. Hignell would transform the property between Pine and Market streets into 24 one-bedroom and 20 studio apartment units that would average between 400 and 500 square feet of floor space. At least four of the apartments would be set aside for very-low and low-income renters. The Redding Board of Administrative Review will consider Hignell’s site development permit application ...

A local strip club is suing two Ohio agencies to get back a $25,000 fine levied against it due to an alleged nudity violation that put its liquor license in jeopardy. WCI, Inc., which operates Cheeks Gentlemen ’s Club in West Carrollton , has sued the Ohio Liquor Control Commission and the Ohio Dept. of Public Safety in Dayton’s U.S. District Court . Cheeks’ attorney’s, Anthony Cicero and Luke Lirot, said the commission unfairly imposes “enormous and disproportionate fines” against gentlemen’s clubs for liquor license violations . SOCIAL MEDIA:  Follow  Mark Gokavi on Twitter or Facebook In March 2014, a performer at Cheeks was found to have nudity and sexual activity violations during a “private dance” for an Ohio Dept. of Public Safety Investigative Unit agent during a “ routine field investigation ” of which no surveillance footage was available. Court documents from the Tenth District Court of Appeals stated that, “While performing a private dance for one the investigators, ...

IN THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA FP Willow Ridge Associates , L.P., : : Appellant : : v. : No. 1846 C.D. 2016 : Argued: June 5, 2017 Allen Township and Northampton : Borough : BEFORE: HONORABLE P. KEVIN BROBSON, Judge HONORABLE MICHAEL H. WOJCIK, Judge HONORABLE JOSEPH M. COSGROVE, Judge OPINION BY JUDGE WOJCIK FILED : July 6, 2017 FP Willow Ridge Associates , L.P., (Willow Ridge) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County (trial court) that granted Allen Township ’s (Township) motion for summary judgment against Willow Ridge and dismissed as moot Northampton Bor...