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“Brothel on Pretoria Avenue.”

The Glebe Community’s Association’s email update raised eyebrows across the neighbourhood last week with the first discussion item for the group’s monthly meeting.

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At its Tuesday meeting, the association listened to concerns raised by neighbours about a mysterious business that recently opened on a section of Pretoria Avenue.

“We have heard concerns from residents, and the GCA has relayed those concerns to bylaw, the police and the councillor’s office,” Sarah Viehbeck, president of the GCA’s board of directors, said Friday.

Viehbeck said she has received a number of emails from residents worried about the appropriateness of the business in a residential neighbourhood.

The unmarked business is six blocks from First Avenue Public School on a street that is a mix of residential and commercial buildings. A reporter from this newspaper visited the location at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. The front door featured a doorbell, a mounted video camera and a sign that read, “By appointment only.”