Definitely glad Cobo 's name is gone. Hopefully, the TFC sponsorship will provide the necessary funds to maintain the building. As DetroitSoldier said, time will tell.
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Definitely glad Cobo 's name is gone. Hopefully, the TFC sponsorship will provide the necessary funds to maintain the building. As DetroitSoldier said, time will tell.
"You know, the way all baby boomers and millennials who grew up attending outdoor concerts at Pine Knob now reflexively refer tothatvenue as … wait, don't tell me! I know this one. …"
This sentence from today's Freep article says it all. The majority of locals will still be calling it Cobo until they tear the place down. It is a nice way to make some money for the city and to confuse tourists.
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Every little bit helps but 1.5 million/year will clean the windows and not much else. They really need to book some big conventions to replace the auto show revenues. By replace the auto show revenues, what is happening is they are moving from a dead time mid-Nov. to mid-Jan. for set-up and show to May/June when convention centers are busier.
Is there still a Hubbard Drive in Dearborn? Is Hubbard's statue still standing? Asking for a friend...
Don't feel bad.... I still call the bridge to Belle Isle "the MacArthur Bridge"... :eek:
But will there be TCF carpet inside, ala the COBO carpet of the 90's?
Life is so much simpler when you can just erase complex history. Now we just have a glorious corporate entity to celebrate, and as dear Sen. Elizabeth Warren knows they are never evil.
If there's one certainty here, its that none of this money will be an increase to Cobo Hall's, I mean TCF Place's budget.
OK, here's one more certainty. Cobo will always be more significant to Detroit's history than any bank with a meaningless TLA.
This is why I'm completely opposed to naming things and places after people. One group does it to memorialize or honor a person from their time. Years or decades later, someone else begins to take offense. Corporatization is even worse. How many times do companies change names over the years? Will the city be obligated to pay for all the maps and published documents if this bank changes their name again?
Why wasn't this originally given some regional but otherwise innocuous name like Riverfront Center?
^^^ Yes, I'm with you on this Meddle, all things considered.
The corporate naming rights thing goes back a long way and actually was kind of backward. In the early '50's the Busch family wanted to change the name of Sportmen's Park in St. Louis to Budweiser but MLB said no. They instead changed it to Busch Stadium and came out with Busch beer to capitalize on their family name being on a ballpark. The Astros may have been the 1st team to get a big sponsorship with Enron Field. That didn't go so well and they paid a couple of million to buy back the name.
Again, I suppose that remains to be seen. I've lived in Detroit for 15 years now. I'm fully aware of the history around Mayor Cobo but quite frankly, a bank that builds a tower downtown, grants me a loan, and invests in the city will have a bigger impact on my life - and I suspect all modern Detroiters - than Cobo ever did. In fact, many Detroiters, including government agencies, are actively working every day to UNDO a lot of Cobo's signature accomplishments...
^^ I screwed up the reply with quote and was not allowed to edit... some of my thoughts look as if they are part of Wesley's original quote.
I don't mind losing the Cobo name, but I haven't the faintest hope of remembering TFC, or FCT, or THC or -- what was that again?