Lavender Spa Thread Gone?

[Jumpin’ Jack Flash]

Nope... York region has different cities, different mayors and different zonings.

Markham Richmond hill whitchurch-Stouffville Aurora Newmarket Vaughan are all in York region. Durham region Peel region are different.

 

[Pay2Play]

But one regional police force. It’s even in the name.

Please stop…

 

[Darksid3]

Licensing is done by municipalities but York region sets the tone.

Girls will move to another city the other municipalities will see and come down on them

It's a chain reaction

 

[bbtpongs]

Was that when it was all Russian and other Eastern European Spas or was that earlier? I do remember them but I wasn’t partaking at the time.

EBC? Same then as now, mostly Chinese. Don't know about Vaughan back then.

 

[hangul99]

I don't think so. EBC is not close to residential neighborhood. It's all industrial and commercial businesses except a newly built condo facing Bellagio. It could be complaints from other businesses around here and it's quite embarrassing for City to have spas lining up side by side with City bldg.

By residents I mean both residential and commercial. And local residents go to other businesses in the area. Throw in one or two angry wives and sooner or later there will be complaints.

 

[hangul99]

My guess is they will start working at other spas in the city. The spas with multiple locations might be less impacted for now at least, but yeah this is going to financially impact the ladies heavily.

To work in Toronto a mpa needs a license. Many of them don't want their name registered anywhere that could tie them back to being a mpa. Many will have to work underground for lack of a better word.

 

[hangul99]

Nothing's set in stone.

Things could be different thia time around.

Just sharing what happened last time.

There weren't as many spas then and they weren't as openly promoting the 'extra' services

There were just as many spas in the EBC area at the time of the raids that closed them all down last time. EBC, East Wilmot, Sims and 9005 Leslie and 9011 Leslie units were dominated by spas. I used to work in that area in its glory days.

 

[bbtpongs]

Did the spas just slowly start popping up again? Wonder how long they waited lol...

Based on old terb threads, they started coming back around 2009/2010, with just a couple, and then more and more around 2013.

Edit: Funny re-reading those old threads. A certain "marketing professional" here was playing at the same things back then as well. The more things change ...

 

[bbtpongs]

There were just as many spas in the EBC area at the time of the raids that closed them all down last time. EBC, East Wilmot, Sims and 9005 Leslie and 9011 Leslie units were dominated by spas. I used to work in that area in its glory days.

Yup.

 

[eyeswideshut]

There's an article about the 2003/2004 crackdown. Interesting read:

Massage parlours hard to rub out

Sex sells.

www.yorkregion.com

There were just as many spas in the EBC area at the time of the raids that closed them all down last time. EBC, East Wilmot, Sims and 9005 Leslie and 9011 Leslie units were dominated by spas. I used to work in that area in its glory days.

The article mentions 10 spas on EBC but there's got to be closer to 20 today, and way more if you include the surrounding streets

Based on old terb threads, they started coming back around 2009/2010, with just a couple, and then more and more around 2013

Damn, if that's the case and a similar 'clean up' is done now then it could be years before things get back to normal

On the other hand, the number of spas in the area seem to have exploded over the last few years, so I wouldn't exactly call the current situation 'normal'

 

[JimiNY]

literally the oldest corporation in the history of this country

Hudson’s Bay is the oldest in North America on 1670 and is the oldest incorporated joint-stock merchandising company in the English-speaking world

 

[boeing707]

The article mentions 10 spas on EBC but there's got to be closer to 20 today, and way more if you include the surrounding streets

Probably over a hundred if you include the surrounding areas.

The reason local municipalities are cracking down is obviously nuiscense for surrounding business, and the image of the city of Richmond Hill as a center of prostitution. The one reason that is not talked because operators are too afraid to speak out, are links between all those spas and organized crime, see this in light of fentanyl production, i.e. as per factual reports, billions of dollars are funneled back from North America to China to a handful of very large and influential syndicates. For all those reasons, the city has a strong motive to act. A very small number of spas in Richmond Hill are adapting to this by reducing risk and transforming from offering prostitution (well let's call it what it is), to reducing the extras, and focusing on room fee revenue from RMT massage and by attracting female clients.