Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] somebody set up us the bomb, part 2

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Jonathan King wrote:
> 
> > More seriously, the usual problem with building booms is that they can
> > lead to serious busts, and as a homeowner, I don't want to see that.  I
> > also don't want to see the dessicated remains of the Ramada Inn rusting
> > away for years a la the Biscayne Mall.
> 
> Hmm...  Off-campus dorm rooms?

Most of the new student housing I've seen advertised that's that far
off campus is quite...swanky.  But right now, I believe some of 
rooms in the Regency Whatever downtown are being used as temporary 
housing for foreign students, so it's not too bizarre an idea.
 
> It's hard to do much with a mall, unless store owners want to set
> up shop there, but a hotel can provide tiny homes.

Well, Parkade Center got turned into more of an offices/phone bank
kind of place.  The decrepit strip mall on Broadway (where Gerbes
is) has gone into office-y stuff as well.  The Biscayne Mall
building was apparently never that great to begin with, and Kroenke
was obviously burning off the remaining leases at Biscayne and
didn't really want new tenants.  And now Famous Barr is making him
move the Wal*Mart.

Gee, maybe he's going to put a hotel there. :-)

jking

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