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She engaged the police department to clear out panhandlers and homeless tent camps that persistently dotted the 3,000-space plain of parking. Sadler is an indefatigable booster who has rallied some of her neighbors to pitch in for a fresh name-it's now known, at least online and on social media, as the Commercial Center District World Village-as well as beautification projects, including graffiti clean-up. You can sin and be saved, all in the same day." "And then, when it's all said and done, you can go to one of the many churches and repent, go get your nails done and have a bite to eat. "You can do everything here," gushes Paula Sadler, owner of the 1,700-square-foot A Harmony Nail Spa and, since 2006, founder and president of the Commercial Center Business Association. And, of course, there's a Pentecostal church. But there's also a roller hockey facility, the largest billiards hall in town, a karaoke bar, a workplace uniform emporium, and about 30 restaurants, including several celebrated hyper-authentic Korean, Japanese and Chinese spots, one of the best Thai restaurants in America, as well as a popular kosher restaurant and a Mexican-operated banquet hall frequently used for quinceaneras. Its offerings include two gay bathhouses, a legendary straight swingers club, two gay bars, a trans-friendly bar and a gay-oriented Alcoholics Anonymous center. The area has, in the decades that have passed since its heyday, transformed into perhaps the weirdest, most diverse shopping district in America-with a decidedly queer bent. Now? It's the pinnacle of something, to be sure.
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Back then, in the era before malls and mega-casinos took over the city, Commercial Center was a happening, modern retail experiment, a sprawling 38-acre collection of a dozen low-rise buildings that was the pinnacle of hip.