Landmark Pittsburgh Gentlemen's Club Blush Sold

PITTSBURGH, PA - Blush, a Downtown institution for decades and its last surviving gentlemen’s club, has been sold to one of the country’s leading operators of strip joints and sports bars.

RCI Hospitality Holdings Inc. purchased the Ninth Street club for $2.5 million. It also purchased the building housing the 16,000 square-foot club and the connecting building at Ninth Street and Penn Avenue for $5 million. That structure has retail tenants such as Nicky’s Thai Kitchen restaurant.

"We're pleased to have Blush join our portfolio of quality establishments in top metro markets," said Eric Langan, RCI's President & CEO. "Blush is a profitable, cash-flowing number one club in a market that is home to great sports teams, leading universities, and well-established and emerging industries."

RCI did not indicate whether the Blush name will remain. The company and its subsidiaries operate more than 40 gentlemen's clubs and sports bars in cities such as New York,, Miami, Charlotte, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, Minneapolis and St. Louis. They operate under brand names such as Rick's Cabaret, XTC, Club Onyx, Vivid Cabaret, Jaguars, Tootsie's Cabaret, and Scarlett's Cabaret.

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