Another $800 mil for Xanadu?

[miketd1]

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

Add it all up, and American Dream will have cost nearly $5 billion when it opens.
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Maybe the MBA guys can figure out the ROI. The entertainment portion might add some value to the economy but the retail just shuffles stores and sales from other malls.

For that price they could have jacked "Revel" onto stilts and then barges and moved it to the Meadowlands.

 

[srru86]

For that price they could have jacked "Revel" onto stilts and then barges and moved it to the Meadowlands.

That's a problem solving mind set right there.

 

[LC-88]

If you are an investigative journalist, not sure why you're not all over this.

Because you don't want to end up inside a concrete support column.

 

[DJ Spanky]

Because you don't want to end up inside a concrete support column.

Wouldn't your job description then be: "Involved in infrastructure" ?

 

[Mr_Twister]

Thread's title sounds like a king's ransom.

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

Thread's title sounds like a king's ransom.

The original name and spending sounds like the palace from "Citizen Kane"...

..and we know how that ended up... auction!

Anyone need some ugly ass tiles or an indoor ski ramp?

 

[AshSaturday]

They should take that money and put into the transportation fund towards roadway projects-of course then they couldn't steal the monies from "the gas tax".

 

[newell138]

The real question is why is the state government building a mall?

 

[S_Janowski]

It will do well with the expectations of a casino at the Meadowlands

No. No it won't.