Teen Club Shut Down

The party -- known as Club Bounce -- has drawn numerous complaints from residents and businesses in the Chinatown area. The event has been offered most Saturday nights since August in a building at 915 F St. NW, the former location of Platinum nightclub, attracting 300 to 500 youths. They cited a shooting in the area that they said followed a fight outside the building. No one was hurt in the shooting.

The Club Bounce program was created by Traci Allen and her daughter Aliah, now 14, and run through an outfit called Teen Life Productions. Allen said she was upset that the city took a drastic step, even though the reason for the event was to provide young people from the DMVwith a safe environment.

The hall's (Platinum) owner said that the Club Bounce party is being blamed for trouble, away from the place, that had nothing to do with the program. Club Bounce -- promoted as the "D.C. Area's Hottest 18 & Under Teen Night Club" -- has been staged at various venues in the Washington area since 2007. It caters to youths, grades 9 through 12, and does not serve alcohol.

"I am a single mom," Allen said. "I want safety for everyone. I have a daughter. We're a very controlled event."

See I am all for offering teens a place to mingle and enjoy themselves but a club is a mixture of oil and water, which will never combine as one. Today people are so messed up that enjoying a night out without an altercation, fight or worst a shooting is far and few. Even adult clubs haven’t stood the test of the times. Quite often those clubs are shut down only to re-open as a new and improved version.WTF? Are the crowds also renovated because if not you’re going to have the same problems all over again. So the question remains can people be renovated with a new attitude, demeanor and all?