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You can really see how MLSE has become a real estate corporation posing as a sports properties owner. The sports properites are just content for the important stuff, and provide brand equity for the real estate.
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Not really. What more can they do real estate wise once this project is done and completely sold for condos?
 
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Miami and Dallas have somewhat similar schemes. I also believe the New Jersey Nets has a large multi-use, multi-tower complex planned for their move to Brooklyn.

It's all about building the brand.
 
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Is it the New Jersey proposal that has a Gehry design?
 
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Quite a controversial one, in fact. Greeted with total hysteria by Brooklyn NIMBYs...who, for the record, are as bad or worse as anything TO has to offer.
 
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What more can they do real estate wise once this project is done and completely sold for condos?
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Office podium on top of the Ricoh Centre (with govt. contribution to the costs); several residential floors on top of the Etobicoke property to be marketed to sports fans (with govt. contribution to the costs); redevelop St. Mike's Arena as the new, urgently needed, practice facility (with govt. ... ).

Take over the Hershey Centre (or maybe just take over Hershey's, with govt. ... )

All it takes is a little imagination.
 
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"You can really see how MLSE has become a real estate corporation posing as a sports properties owner. "


if need be, wouldn't it make more sense the other way around - a real estate rich pension fund posing as a sports franchise owner
 
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true ^teachers pension is getting mlse to do all the dirty work
 
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I realy hope they get the House of Blues in the podium. This will really be another must see are when it is done.
 
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Given the Aykroyd (or Downchild/Blues Brothers) connection, I'm kind of surprised there *hasn't* been a Toronto House of Blues yet--heck, I'm surprised one didn't open up back in the 90s...
 
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Has anyone gone by the site? Has it started?
 
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On Saturday the parking was still in use by the ACC.
 
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The House of Blues is a US based franchise- despite Akroyd's involvement- "Locations: Cleveland, Ohio; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; San Diego, California; Chicago, Illinois; New Orleans, Louisiana; Los Angeles, California; two venues on casino property including Las Vegas, Nevada (at Mandalay Bay) and Atlantic City, New Jersey (at the Showboat Casino); two venues on Disney property, one at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and one at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. (Disney was at one time a partial shareholder, according to DisneyWar by James B. Stewart.)" - W-pedia

It would be nice to see Akroyd, with his significant pop-culture influence, doing something unique for Toronto.
 
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The way Aykroyd been bashing Canada and our anti-business socialist ways, I don't think he's interested in invested outside the "land of opportunity".
 
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Whaaaa? He's got a number of business interests in Canada. For one, he just bought a winery down here in Niagara.
 
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