Casino planned near Metro Airport

[Detroitnerd]

So casinos are following the trajectory of traditional malls, then? Sigh ... the only people this benefits is the building trades. Worse yet, casinos are pretty much your typical single-use structure. [[Unless you can get a government unit to come to the rescue, which is what happened in Detroit, likely with plenty of drawbacks, functionally speaking.) What do they become after they go bust?

Detroit: Making short-term gains for big problems tomorrow ...

[animatedmartian]

So casinos are following the trajectory of traditional malls, then? Sigh ... the only people this benefits is the building trades. Worse yet, casinos are pretty much your typical single-use structure. [[Unless you can get a government unit to come to the rescue, which is what happened in Detroit, likely with plenty of drawbacks, functionally speaking.) What do they become after they go bust?

Detroit: Making short-term gains for big problems tomorrow ...

Las Vegas was pretty famous for having many casinos and hotels demolished only to be replaced with newer ones. It seemed like there was a high rise hotel imploded every other year since the 90s. They basically just kept rebuilding them until they got to the current set of casinos that have remained successful if not somewhat unique.

[Detroitnerd]

Las Vegas was pretty famous for having many casinos and hotels demolished only to be replaced with newer ones. It seemed like there was a high rise hotel imploded every other year since the 90s. They basically just kept rebuilding them until they got to the current set of casinos that have remained successful if not somewhat unique.

Well, if they're all in one place, I think that works, but with all these casinos all spread out and fighting for the same clientele [[and taken together with our penchant for abandoning areas behind us and rebuilding in front of us) it doesn't bode well for us.