DETROIT, MI -- A new strip club named Legend's, which dubs itself "Metro Detroit's newest and most anticipated club," is preparing to open this month at a location that has a violent history.

The three-story taupe-painted building at 415 E. Congress next to St. Andrews Hall recently received a makeover after being shuttered in 2012.

It's now painted black at street level with a bright red awning displaying the words "gentlemen's club" and a near-one-story gold "L" fastened above.

According to the club's Facebook page, the business plans to open in January and is hiring all positions. Inquiries may be directed to LegendsDetroit@gmail.com.

Prior to becoming a gentlemen's club, it was an often-raucous nightclub aptly named Pandemonium, ordered closed by Detroit City Council after two security guards were killed on the job in 2012.

Thirty-nine-year-old Marcel Jackson, a member the Detroit 300, an area anti-violence activist organization, was shot and killed June 20, 2012, while working as a security guard there.

On Sept. 23, 2012, 20-year-old Trevon Lavelle Dumas fatally stabbed security guard Lewis Ferrin, 40, of Macomb County in the neck. Less than a week after Ferrin's death, a man filmed gunfire inside the club that was posted to YouTube.

Legend's will compete with Bouzouki, another popular strip club in downtown Detroit.

The Grind, yet another gentlemen's club that had been located in downtown Detroit, caught on fire in February.