Sugar Shack Demolition Day Underway, Strip Club To Become Housing

PORTLAND, OR – The building that once housed the Sugar Shack, a strip club that the Cully neighborhood in Northeast Portland considered a stain on the neighborhood, is being demolished.

The club's owners, who were under investigation for money laundering and other charges, sold the building four years ago to Living Cully, the neighborhood organization, which promptly renamed it "Living Cully Plaza."

When it became clear that repurposing the building would be beyond the organization's means, they sold last year to a Hacienda CDC, a local developer that agreed to turn it into an affordable housing project.

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The new 140-unit development will be known as "Las Adelitas," after Adela Velarde a nurse who fought in the Mexican Revolution and led a group of other nurses who became known as the Adelitas.

The project will also include a large community space.

Photo of the former Sugar Shack via Living Cully.