So we should not build any more residential, retail, parking and commercial spaces that aren't theaters because Forbes, Nederlander and Olympia can't book enough shows at their theaters that appeal to local tastes? 30kish will be packing into CoPa to watch the Tigers whenever they're in town. 100k drove out to AA to watch a crap college team play another college team that hasn't won a game in 3 years. 65k will pack FF to watch the [[historically) worst Pro football team in the league play. When's hockey start?
Maybe there just isn't a market here for musicals? Or a market at all for much "theater"? Or maybe they need to evaluate their pricing. In a 5 million person metro area, the issue isn't a lack of market, it's having a product not much of the market gives a shit about. That's a just the reality of the rust belt.
Restaurants will always have dead nights... but you know what makes them less dead? MORE RESIDENTIAL. Which is part of the Gilbert plan.
Gilbert's plan, favored by the building authority, is proposing a $500 million, 1.7 million square-foot development to include residential, hotel, retail and parking units
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