The owner of a strip club in Coopersburg is offering a $5,000 reward after the historic building was destroyed by fire this month.
Video posted on the shows a brief clip of a person apparently running away from the Silhouettes Show Bar at 111 E. Station Ave. It also cites the reward for the arrest and conviction of whoever was involved in the alleged arson.
Coopersburg police Chief Anthony Struss could not be reached Sunday for comment. WFMZ-TV .
Lehigh County property records list Coopersburg Holdings Inc. as owner, with Pennsylvania business records listing Bruce Young of Bernville, Berks County, as president. Young could not be reached Sunday for comment.
The Lehigh County strip club and former hotel was destroyed, along with 12 apartments above the bar, when fire tore through the 160-year-old structure shortly after midnight June 9.
Authorities have not released an update, including the cause of the fire. No injuries were reported; the building had been vacant.
Officials said the June 9 fire was the second time in two weeks crews responded to a blaze fire at Silhouette’s. Borough fire Chief Dave Huber said then that remains of the 19th century building were scheduled to be razed after authorities completed an investigation.
Fire at the Silhouettes Show Bar in Coopersburg | PHOTOS
The state police fire marshal and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives conducted the investigation. Lehigh County detectives were also part of the probe.
An estimated 75 to 100 firefighters from departments throughout the СŷƵ responded or assisted at the scene for several hours.
The building, originally called The Baldwin House, had 12 rooms that were rented weekly. All but one were occupied before the previous fire, Huber said. It was built as a hotel soon after railroad lines were laid in 1856 outside the borough, according to the Coopersburg Historical Society.
