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By Paul Barker

Special to Postmedia Network

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You don’t need a PhD in urban planning to realize that having a strip joint located near a quiet neighborhood is not a great idea.

But such was the case with the infamous House of Lancaster at 689 The Queensway in Etobicoke just east of Royal York Road, which was demolished in late February to the relief of local residents who put up with more than noise and lap dancing over the years. Since 2013, there have also been three shooting incidents.

“It’s in ashes now,” says Stafford Lawson, partner of Parallax Development Corp., a real estate developer that bought the club, which operated for almost 35 years, last May with the full attention of shutting it down sooner rather than later.

The House of Lancaster site was put on the company’s “radar” early in 2017 after Lawson and co-owners Nigel Lawson and Michael Binder heard through an agent that owner Spiro Koumoudouroswanted to sell.