Florida- Sunny Isles Beach city leaders are in a showdown with the owners of the city’s only strip club over a law that would force the club to move from its high-profile spot on the city’s main thoroughfare.

Thee DollHouse, which advertises ”Miami’s only onstage shower shows,” has been a fixture since the late 1980s, before the city was incorporated.

The club now sits at the city’s gateway along the 163rd Street Causeway, but city commissioners want the club to relocate to one of two strip malls on the west side of Collins Avenue.

Those two malls will become the city’s new official adult entertainment zone if commissioners give the measure final approval Thursday. If approved, the club would have five years to relocate.

But the owners of what is the city’s lone adult establishment are crying foul, arguing the move is meant to put them out of business. The strip malls’ owner refuses to lease to Thee DollHouse, the club’s attorney says. And the city, in concert with a local developer, have hatched redevelopment plans that include Thee DollHouse property, he said.

”This is not about adult entertainment,” said Norman Powell, a land-use attorney representing the club. “It’s a land grab.”

Powell points to a brochure for the St. Tropez condo and town house development across the street, which features artistic renderings for a town center and park on a site that includes Thee DollHouse property. It includes a quote from Mayor Norman Edelcup touting the project and its street-side promenade as major enhancements to Sunny Isles Beach.

The city has made no secret of eyeing the land for park space, said City Attorney Hans Ottinot. He and other city officials have met several times with land owners to discuss buying the Thee DollHouse property at 255 Sunny Isles Blvd., Ottinot said.

But Ottinot said a land deal is separate from rezoning the adult business.

”This is not a grand scheme, a conspiring between the city and the developer of the St. Tropez,” Ottinot said. “When you don’t have a substantive legal argument, you raise a lot of red herrings.”

Since becoming a city in 1997, Sunny Isles Beach has focused on revamping its image from campy motels to towering upscale condos. The effort includes making over its entrance, and the city has added a massive, decorative welcome sign on Sunny Isles Boulevard — next to a public storage center, a small strip mall and Thee DollHouse.

The club’s exterior is low-key. Inside, though, is a different story: purple neon lights illuminate a large stage in the center of the room, where dancers shimmy around a pole to songs such as Dangerous:

”That girl is so dangerous/ That girl is so dangerous/ That girl is a bad girl,” pumped from the speakers as ”Briana” gyrated onstage on a recent weekday night.

Next up: Diva — ‘delicious, delightful, double `Ds,’ ” boasted the DJ.

For $25, the women will perform friction dances; for $50, they will shower onstage together — or with customers.

Powell, along with a team of First Amendment attorneys, have raised other legal issues, including that the club should not be subject to any new zoning regulations because it predates the city’s 1997 incorporation.

Under federal law, municipalities cannot ban adult establishments. But they can regulate where and how those businesses operate in order to protect the public from increased crime and lower property values, Ottinot said.

Other cities make life ”really uncomfortable for adult use,” Ottinot said. “But we didn’t want to do that.”

”We feel we have reached a middle ground,” Ottinot added. “We regulate them, but allow them to survive.”