RIP Greektown: Laikon Closing

**Detroitnerd** · April-13-12, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by bibs

I would image that the dynamics in Greek Town have changed so much that some of these businesses might be forced to sell. If your business is declining due to traffic congesting related to the casino and your restaurant sales are delcining due to competition from the casino, your best option is to sell. Is another restaurant district taking it's place? What about the Harmonie park area?

If I remember right, when Greektown moved in it promised to not have restaurants. [[But now they do.) The foot traffic should have benefited the restaurants. But it was alleged that Greektown could be capricious, however, about which restaurants were part of its comp program. I think a main sticking point would be the tubes between hotel and casino -- all that energy is taken off the street and funneled right into the gambling house. It would be possible to drive into the casino hotel, eat, go gamble, and never set foot on Monroe Street. For Greektown, it's a recipe for disaster...

**Gistok** · April-13-12, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by Detroitnerd

If I remember right, when Greektown moved in it promised to not have restaurants. [[But now they do.) The foot traffic should have benefited the restaurants. But it was alleged that Greektown could be capricious, however, about which restaurants were part of its comp program. I think a main sticking point would be the tubes between hotel and casino -- all that energy is taken off the street and funneled right into the gambling house. It would be possible to drive into the casino hotel, eat, go gamble, and never set foot on Monroe Street. For Greektown, it's a recipe for disaster...

Right you are DN.... and if you do take the tube across... it sends you on a wild goose chase into the middle of the casino nowhere near an exit to Monroe Ave. And once you've followed that maze, you become sort of disoriented into which direction to go to get to Monroe. Get off at the end of the tube... or at Trappers Alley? No can do....

This was done deliberately so that you can't easily get to the street after crossing the tube.