Kitty’s East, an adult entertainment store cited as a public nuisance by Denver police after a narcotics sting operation, has closed.

The public nuisance notice was filed Friday after an undercover “buy-bust operation” in January.

Acting on a tip to Denver detectives that narcotics were being sold at Kitty’s, particularly in the arcade area, the sting was set up, according to police reports.

A confidential informant and an undercover detective entered the arcade area and purchased $20 worth of crack cocaine from a man identified in police reports as 39-year-old Franky Sessions of Aurora.

Sessions was arrested, and the area in which he was operating was searched. A “large quantity of crack cocaine” was found on the floor, according to police records.

The Public Nuisance Abatement Unit of the Denver Police Department notified building owners Norman J. and Archie L. Granbery, who leased the store to Kitty’s operators, on Friday that the property is considered a public nuisance.

The abatement notice, obtained by The Denver Post, includes a detailed, one-year abatement plan and gives building owners 30 days to comply.

The Granberys said they had a different solution.

“We didn’t like the way they were doing business, so we canceled their lease and they’re gone,” Archie Granbery said Friday. He gave no further comment.

The parent company of Kitty’s East, Colorado Alumni Ltd., was formed in June 1990. That company was voluntarily dissolved on Thursday. Calls to the parent company of Colorado Alumni Ltd. — Capitol News Agency of Chicago — were not returned.

Dave Walstrom, executive director of the business association Colfax on the Hill Inc., has been working on revitalizing the East Colfax corridor for about 20 years.

“I’m sure there will be a few who will miss Kitty’s, uh, ‘customer services,’ but I don’t expect they’ll complain much, at least publicly,” he said in an e-mail. ”

Laura Keeney: 303-954-1337, lkeeney@denverpost.com or twitter.com/yhlaura