Ilitch Parking empire expansion

[Richard]

Business must be good but the casino revenue numbers I've seen don't warrant 700 more spaces. They must be short of spaces during peak times on a Saturday night?

Maybe it is a marketing ploy of sorts,Park your car there and take a shuttle to the game,when you come back,as long as you are there it is convenient to drop in and try your luck in the casino.

[mwilbert]

The only think I can think of the the Illitches have done that anybody else would not have done is the renovation of the Fox, which as Gistok points out was not a complete rescue, but I think we can legitimately say that theatre might well not be in the condition it is in without them. Mike Illitch also spent more on players for his teams to make them contenders than some other owners [[like his heirs) might have.

But the other stuff is either bad or something anyone else would do. Is it really unusual for sports team owners to build stadia with large public subsidies? They have overpromised and underdelivered on their projects for decades, while blighting vast areas through demolition by neglect, and converting viable buildings into surface parking.

So no, I'm not really feeling the love. That said, I don't see why they shouldn't build a bigger garage at their casino.