Amsterdam wants to transform Red Light District sooner rather than later
September 7, 2009
Amsterdam, Sep. 7, 2009 (DutchAmsterdam.nl) — The city of Amsterdam wants to make haste with its efforts to clean up its world-famous Red Light District.
Reportedly within three years it plans to start expropriating property owners who refuse to close their brothels, Dutch press agency ANP reports.
To make this possible the city will soon change the zoning plan for the district. So says Pierre van Rossum, who heads up Project 1012.
Named for the postal code for much of the historic center of Amsterdam, the controversial project is meant to spruce up all of downtown Amsterdam.
It includes plans to drastically reduce the number of ‘windows’ behind which prostitutes offer their services, and to close down many shady businesses. In its place the city envisions fashion studios, art galleries, trendy cafes, small-scale restaurants, and a variety of shops.
In this way Amsterdam’s leaders hope to curtail human trafficking and money laundering, while transforming downtown Amsterdam into a ‘Red Carpet entrance into the city.’
The town council official condoned the project last June.
Crimogene
The municipality targets establishments it considers to be ‘crimogene‘ — a term used to describe functions that encourage ‘promotion or advancement of — or susceptibility to — criminality.’
That includes such businesses as gambling halls, peep shows, sex theaters, hole-in-the-wall ’supermarkets’ and calling stores suspected of money laundering, as well as coffeeshops.
Coffeeshops
While coffeeshops are licensed to sell soft drugs, it is technically not legal to grow and supply commercial quantities of cannabis.
Since police is increasingly successful at finding and dismantling illegal cannabis farms, coffeeshops have more or less been forced to deal with criminal organizations whose large scale growing- and smuggling operations guarantee a steady supply.
As part of Project 1012 the city plans to reduce the number of coffeeshops in downtown Amsterdam from 76 to 50 over the next three to six years.
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'Hole- in-the-wall supermarkets' ?????The municipality targets establishments it considers to be ‘crimogene‘ — a term used to describe functions that encourage ‘promotion or advancement of — or susceptibility to — criminality.’
That includes such businesses as gambling halls, peep shows, sex theaters, hole-in-the-wall ’supermarkets’
I thought they had already done most of this in the RLD?? So it's gonna get a lot worse over the next 3 years??
Don't get me wrong, i could survive a trip to Amsterdam without a RLD, but it would be no-where near as fun for me. It was the liberal view on such an area that was a mark in the 'why i am addicted to amsterdam list'.
Don't get me wrong, i could survive a trip to Amsterdam without a RLD, but it would be no-where near as fun for me. It was the liberal view on such an area that was a mark in the 'why i am addicted to amsterdam list'.
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In this way Amsterdam’s leaders hope to curtail human trafficking and money laundering,
That includes such businesses as hole-in-the-wall ’supermarkets’ and calling stores suspected of money laundering
probably equivelent to all the kebab & fried chicken shops which have popped up all over london in last 5-10 years, which anyone in the know, knows is used to wash heroin money by the turkish & kurdish mafias, another well known turkish grocers (which i wont name, but lets just say they got places in croydon,dalston,walthamstow,edmonton) are BIG players in the laundering game
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Amsterdam wants to transform Red Light District sooner rather than later
Yes, I heard they sold the rights to Disney corp!
This is bullshit, used, primarily by developers, who'll get rich by expropriating (at low cost, no doubt), the so-called "crimogene" properties, and then sell the finished product at outrageous prices.Crimogene
The municipality targets establishments it considers to be ‘crimogene‘ — a term used to describe functions that encourage ‘promotion or advancement of — or susceptibility to — criminality.’
That includes such businesses as gambling halls, peep shows, sex theaters, hole-in-the-wall ’supermarkets’ and calling stores suspected of money laundering, as well as coffeeshops.
This sleazy move is seen all over the world, when cities decide that they "need to clean up" such and such part of town!
Funny how the impoverished former denizens of those newly "cleaned up" parts of town NEVER seem to benefit from the "cleansing".
A reverse Robin Hood manoeuver: Rob from the poor and give to the rich.
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