Emu_steve Member Username: Emu_steve
Post Number: 429 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2007 - 9:13 am: | |
re: renewing his lease on the Joe? Isn't there an exercise date of Aug 15? |
Scottr Member Username: Scottr
Post Number: 681 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2007 - 9:42 am: | |
i think it's the 16th, but yeah, he has until then to renew his lease. |
Emu_steve Member Username: Emu_steve
Post Number: 430 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2007 - 10:20 am: | |
Time for a poll. On or before August 16 what will happen: 0 Ilitch announces Wings will stay at the Joe 0 Ilitch announces Wings will move to a new arena 0 Ilitch and DET will extend the time to make a decision |
Emu_steve Member Username: Emu_steve
Post Number: 431 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2007 - 10:22 am: | |
I'll vote. I vote for the 3rd option. I think things are perking behind the Fox but all of the ducks are not lined up yet. How about a 60 day extension before Ilitch has to decide? |
Ramcharger Member Username: Ramcharger
Post Number: 409 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 8:23 am: | |
How about a 22 month extension before Ilitch has to decide? Lease up for Cobo, the Joe doesn't expire till 2010 |
Tkelly1986 Member Username: Tkelly1986
Post Number: 396 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 8:30 am: | |
Well, so much for the joint announcement with Quicken......Looks like we are currently 0 for 2. |
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus
Post Number: 1845 Registered: 06-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 8:54 am: | |
Still, don't be surprised to see the new arena announced in the coming months... |
Sharmaal Member Username: Sharmaal
Post Number: 1201 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 9:01 am: | |
Besides, what would the City do? Kick them out? It's not like anyone else is clamoring to book 40 events a year there. |
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 3588 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 9:12 am: | |
This only makes sense. If he announces a new arena today, fall 2009 would be the earliest they could move in. An extension of the current lease was neccesary, and the city surely did not want to get on his bad side...although they should have raised his rent. |
Genesyxx Member Username: Genesyxx
Post Number: 779 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 9:28 am: | |
Even though their lease would be up in a year+, I'd still think they'd make an announcement if they were, in fact building a new staduim. Chances are, they'll revise the lease for another 5 years and move on to Illitch Village. |
Wilus1mj Member Username: Wilus1mj
Post Number: 215 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 9:48 am: | |
Only in the city of Detroit would they not know when they're lease with 2 such prominent properties would end??? WTF?? The City should be receiving a much larger sum of money than what the lease terms are currently. |
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336
Post Number: 1251 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 10:01 am: | |
I wonder if those later dates are due to various options. How long would it take to build a new arena? if they decide now, between design, needed demolition, etc, might it not be ready till 2010? |
Danindc Member Username: Danindc
Post Number: 3020 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 10:07 am: | |
^If all the property was already acquired, and design started immediately, a new arena could probably be built in just over 2 years (depending on severity of the winter). |
Jyogi Member Username: Jyogi
Post Number: 27 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 10:23 am: | |
Ummm ok well when is out deadline to have plans going for the expansion of Cobo before we loose the North American International Auto Show? I know the NADA announced a few months back that if plans aren't out there soon the Auto Show will move to Chicago... (Detroit will still have an Auto Show but it won't be the North American International Auto Show)....... |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 5107 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 10:59 am: | |
Funny I thought the DAIAS was sponsored by DADA, and not NADA (which I don't think sponsors auto shows). So how can you be so sure that the NAIAS name is moving to Chicago? Maybe DADA owns the name "NAIAS", and any show in Chicago that is bigger and more prestigious would have to be named something else? I highly doubt that the Detroit Area Dealers Association will just hand over the name to Chicago, especially if they own the name! Although I agree an expansion of Cobo is necessary, I think that the talk of moving the show is more HYPE than substance. After all why would the Detroit Dealers want to move the show to Chicago? |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 5111 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 3:55 pm: | |
Looks like dual threads... |
Professorscott Member Username: Professorscott
Post Number: 641 Registered: 12-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 4:22 pm: | |
Move NAIAS to a different thread or kill it. There is no factual basis whatsoever to Jyogi's assertion. DADA runs the show; if they have registered the name NAIAS as a trademark then they have exclusive use of it, otherwise anyone can run any kind of show and call it that. The only talk I've ever heard of moving the show is right here in this discussion. |
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56
Post Number: 34 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 4:30 pm: | |
I believe both Ford Field and CoPa took roughly 2 years from the time the tractors arrived until the teams took the field. |