Subject:
|
Re: What pieces do you wish existed?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.general
|
Date:
|
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 18:37:18 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1221 times
|
| |
|
|
Tom, the MGM Grand (temporary) $250 million casino opened 3 weeks ago with the
other 2 "temps" opening up in the next 2 months. Metro Detroit will be North
America's largest gaming center (population wise) when it's all done. There are 5
million people in the metro area, 15 million within a 3 hour drive of Detroit.
With a large business audience alone (automotive/technology) that makes for a lot
of Lego sales at a downtown Lego outlet. Add tourists to the mix... wow, that's a
lot of Lego brick sales....
Gary Istok
Tom McDonald wrote:
> If I ever had a real reason to move to a Detroit suburb here it is. ;-)
>
> $800M each? Sounds like expensive rent. And it'll probably be more like $900M
> when all is said and done due to cost overruns.
>
> -Tom McD.
> when replying, "My Life with Spamcake" scored 143 out of 144 in the latest
> Nielsen ratings, right above Roseanne's talk show.
>
> In lugnet.general, Gary R. Istok writes:
> > Scott, In 2004, when they open up the three permanent downtown Detroit • Casino's (MGM Grand,
> > Circus Circus, etc) on the riverfront (800 million dollars each), there will • probably be
> > something like the "Caesar's World of Shops" (in Las Vegas). That is where I • would love to
> > set up shop, where people from all over will be by to visit. Since you're • the first AFOL
> > I've ever met in person, you have first dibs on any job openings, heh-heh.
> >
> > Just a pipe dream for now...
> > Gary Istok
> >
> > Scott Edward Sanburn wrote:
> >
> > > Oh, Oh, Oh, I would work for you, Gary! Where do I sign up?! YES! :)
> > >
> > > Scott Sanburn
> > >
> > > Gary Istok wrote:
> > > > I'd like to open up a Lego store (how about a bulk parts store where you • can get
> > > > 2 scoops of arches and 1/2 pound of tiles to go). I'd also like to set • up my cityscape
> > > > in the display window, and spend part of the time offering building • seminars.
> > > >
> > > > Just a dream right now, but you never know! This, of course, is assuming • that I give
> > > > up the lucrative profession of being a computer consultant. But that • involves giving
> > > > up doing what I can make money at versus doing what I love.
> > > >
> > > > Gary Istok
> > > >
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: What pieces do you wish existed?
|
| (...) are 5 (...) And I thought cars funded that town! Silly me. No doubt Las Vegas will follow suit. That town has virtually no physical barriers to expansion. (...) lot (...) that's a (...) Are you luhring me with potential allusions to $$? :-) (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: What pieces do you wish existed?
|
| If I ever had a real reason to move to a Detroit suburb here it is. ;-) $800M each? Sounds like expensive rent. And it'll probably be more like $900M when all is said and done due to cost overruns. -Tom McD. when replying, "My Life with Spamcake" (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
|
34 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
