RIP Greektown: Laikon Closing

[Gistok]

So let me get this right.... this will NOT be a missing tooth in the fabric of the streetwall... there will be a store or restaurant front on the first floor [[would be nice if Laikon were the choice)... but above it will be a catwalk or tube for visitors coming from a new parking structure behind the north wall of Greektown??

If other Greektown merchants are happy with this... then they are the ones that will have to live with their choices...

[cpanagio]

So let me get this right.... this will NOT be a missing tooth in the fabric of the streetwall... there will be a store or restaurant front on the first floor [[would be nice if Laikon were the choice)... but above it will be a catwalk or tube for visitors coming from a new parking structure behind the north wall of Greektown??

If other Greektown merchants are happy with this... then they are the ones that will have to live with their choices...

People can blame the Casino or other factors for the situation in the neighborhood but ultimately the Greeks are responsible for its undoing. Greeks are in fact the ones who originally proposed the Casino there in the first place. Over the last 10-15 years, the Greeks have migrated farther and farther away from Greektown and don't support the neighborhood like Greeks do in other cities. This forces the merchants to adapt their business' to a different demographic in order to survive. From that aspect its hard to blame them.

Like the old saying goes...they've made their bed any now they must lie in it.