  Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 8144 Registered: 10-2003 |
On numerous occasions he has stated he knows private parties that could expand or build a new Cobo with their own resources. Why hasn't this mystery person or group ever come forward? Will anyone in the local media ever call him out for his bs on this issue? | ||
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua Post Number: 1046 Registered: 01-2004 |
I thought his mysterious group was a potential (additional) casino developer. | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 8145 Registered: 10-2003 |
Got it. That makes much more sense. Just the all the talk of Cobo made me remember when LBP was insistent that it could be done with no tax dollars but never unveiled a name or plan. | ||
Mthouston Member Username: Mthouston Post Number: 652 Registered: 01-2006 |
Jt1, Think, which Organization with a ton of cash, puts on the biggest event in Michigan, and always saying they need more space? Of course I'm just guessing here. I think you will see a new convention center in the Metro Detroit area, but not in Detroit. Perhaps closer to the airport. | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 1452 Registered: 05-2005 |
airport city! | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 900 Registered: 12-2005 |
And that new facility will be free of the shakedown mentality the unions at cobo have. | ||
Mthouston Member Username: Mthouston Post Number: 653 Registered: 01-2006 |
The problem is, no matter what kind on renovation (short of tearing it down and starting all over again) you do to COBO it will never be a world class convention center. If you want to see a real convention center take a trip to the Chicago Auto Show at McCormick Place. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 726 Registered: 04-2006 |
MtHouston, McCormick place is 50 years old and been added to several times. It is cobbled too. BTW, its Cobo, not COBO, it is proper name. You would not write ARCHER or YOUNG if it was named after one of those ex-mayors would you? | ||
Mthouston Member Username: Mthouston Post Number: 655 Registered: 01-2006 |
Hey Detroitplanner take a look at the COBO web site. http://www.cobocenter.com/ They spell it with all caps too.
This is true. But it is a real nice "cobbled" job. | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 293 Registered: 04-2006 |
It's spelled COBO on the building, lol... It would be a stupid idea to build a new convention center outside of Detroit. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 727 Registered: 04-2006 |
In reviewing the site they use Cobo too, its not my fault that we have some ignorant folks marketing the place. What the heck would COBO be an acronym for? City of Bums Organization? Cobo was a Mayor. I've always thought it was silly that they write it that way in the building, I've even had conventioneers ask me what COBO is short for, its confusing. | ||
Christos Member Username: Christos Post Number: 13 Registered: 12-2006 |
Wasn't Cobo a racist? Perhaps the all caps is a way to no longer make it a name of a person? |
