Spearmint Rhino, a bikini bar that bills itself as a “gentlemen’s club,” opened for business in downtown San Jose on Thursday night. If this sounds familiar, that’s because a similar operation called the Gold Club opened five years ago in the same historic West Santa Clara Street building, stirring up some controversy.

The club occupies the San Jose Building and Loan Association building, a Beaux Arts edifice built in 1927, making it one of downtown’s oldest buildings and a city landmark. Over the past decade-plus, it’s housed a number of lounges. For those who remember the old building, its gorgeous stained-glass skylight has survived. It’s merely been draped in somewhat see-through fabric, much like everything else at Spearmint Rhino.

The dimly-lit interior of the two-level club is decorated with leopard print carpeting and wood-grain paneling on the walls, which are decorated with ornately framed photographs of barely dressed women. Of course, there’s a stage with a dance pole off to the side of the lower level, where bikini-clad dancers perform for customers. While Spearmint Rhino operates nude clubs in other areas, all-nude establishments are not allowed in San Jose. (The famous Pink Poodle, Santa Clara County’s most well-known strip club, gets around this because it’s in Burbank, an unincorporated pocket surrounded by San Jose.)

Notably, there wasn’t a ribbon-cutting to do Thursday with the the chamber of commerce’s big scissors and members of the City Council lining up to talk about the activation of a vacant space. The opening did attract a crowd of downtown workers, bartenders and nightlife industry veterans.

Club management wouldn’t comment for the record, but sentiments expressed by some at the opening echoed comments by George Mull, spokesman for the operators of the Gold Club and Spearmint Rhino, from 2013.

“San Jose is the 10th-largest city in the United States,” he said to this news organization when the Gold Club opened. “I would think the city would be mature enough to handle a bikini bar.”