  Emu_steve Member Username: Emu_steve Post Number: 429 Registered: 11-2006 |
re: renewing his lease on the Joe? Isn't there an exercise date of Aug 15? | ||
Scottr Member Username: Scottr Post Number: 681 Registered: 07-2006 |
i think it's the 16th, but yeah, he has until then to renew his lease. | ||
Emu_steve Member Username: Emu_steve Post Number: 430 Registered: 11-2006 |
Time for a poll. On or before August 16 what will happen: 0 Ilitch announces Wings will stay at the Joe 0 Ilitch announces Wings will move to a new arena 0 Ilitch and DET will extend the time to make a decision | ||
Emu_steve Member Username: Emu_steve Post Number: 431 Registered: 11-2006 |
I'll vote. I vote for the 3rd option. I think things are perking behind the Fox but all of the ducks are not lined up yet. How about a 60 day extension before Ilitch has to decide? | ||
Ramcharger Member Username: Ramcharger Post Number: 409 Registered: 05-2006 |
How about a 22 month extension before Ilitch has to decide? Lease up for Cobo, the Joe doesn't expire till 2010 | ||
Tkelly1986 Member Username: Tkelly1986 Post Number: 396 Registered: 01-2004 |
Well, so much for the joint announcement with Quicken......Looks like we are currently 0 for 2. | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 1845 Registered: 06-2006 |
Still, don't be surprised to see the new arena announced in the coming months... | ||
Sharmaal Member Username: Sharmaal Post Number: 1201 Registered: 09-2004 |
Besides, what would the City do? Kick them out? It's not like anyone else is clamoring to book 40 events a year there. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 3588 Registered: 02-2005 |
This only makes sense. If he announces a new arena today, fall 2009 would be the earliest they could move in. An extension of the current lease was neccesary, and the city surely did not want to get on his bad side...although they should have raised his rent. | ||
Genesyxx Member Username: Genesyxx Post Number: 779 Registered: 02-2004 |
Even though their lease would be up in a year+, I'd still think they'd make an announcement if they were, in fact building a new staduim. Chances are, they'll revise the lease for another 5 years and move on to Illitch Village. | ||
Wilus1mj Member Username: Wilus1mj Post Number: 215 Registered: 05-2005 |
Only in the city of Detroit would they not know when they're lease with 2 such prominent properties would end??? WTF?? The City should be receiving a much larger sum of money than what the lease terms are currently. | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 1251 Registered: 02-2007 |
I wonder if those later dates are due to various options. How long would it take to build a new arena? if they decide now, between design, needed demolition, etc, might it not be ready till 2010? | ||
Danindc Member Username: Danindc Post Number: 3020 Registered: 10-2003 |
^If all the property was already acquired, and design started immediately, a new arena could probably be built in just over 2 years (depending on severity of the winter). | ||
Jyogi Member Username: Jyogi Post Number: 27 Registered: 05-2007 |
Ummm ok well when is out deadline to have plans going for the expansion of Cobo before we loose the North American International Auto Show? I know the NADA announced a few months back that if plans aren't out there soon the Auto Show will move to Chicago... (Detroit will still have an Auto Show but it won't be the North American International Auto Show)....... | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 5107 Registered: 08-2004 |
Funny I thought the DAIAS was sponsored by DADA, and not NADA (which I don't think sponsors auto shows). So how can you be so sure that the NAIAS name is moving to Chicago? Maybe DADA owns the name "NAIAS", and any show in Chicago that is bigger and more prestigious would have to be named something else? I highly doubt that the Detroit Area Dealers Association will just hand over the name to Chicago, especially if they own the name! Although I agree an expansion of Cobo is necessary, I think that the talk of moving the show is more HYPE than substance. After all why would the Detroit Dealers want to move the show to Chicago? | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 5111 Registered: 08-2004 |
Looks like dual threads... | ||
Professorscott Member Username: Professorscott Post Number: 641 Registered: 12-2006 |
Move NAIAS to a different thread or kill it. There is no factual basis whatsoever to Jyogi's assertion. DADA runs the show; if they have registered the name NAIAS as a trademark then they have exclusive use of it, otherwise anyone can run any kind of show and call it that. The only talk I've ever heard of moving the show is right here in this discussion. | ||
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56 Post Number: 34 Registered: 05-2007 |
I believe both Ford Field and CoPa took roughly 2 years from the time the tractors arrived until the teams took the field. |
