Exec courses, pools and rec centers are amenities, the squares consist of developer owned space that is rented to businesses.

The developers are not in the movie theater business. They rent the space to all the businesses in the town squares---yes, businesses, they are not amenities. No one runs a business at a loss for long. Or is it the attitude that since "the developers" are "rich" they should take the theater over and throw money down a black hole??? Would any of us????

How much was milk back then? Gas? Everything?

You'd have better luck investing in Buggy Whips.

I think a casino would be very successful. It would provide a lot more and better paying jobs than a movie theater, generate more traffic for the retail businesses in the area and generate tax revenue. I'm willing to bet it would attract far more patronage than a movie theater showing movies no one wants to see anyway.

If bowling, I suggest Duck Pin bowling!

This is probably the best idea yet with one huge problem, which is lack of parking. As it is now, it is hard getting parking at the Genesis Health Club. Also, might need an Indian tribe in the local area to get government approval.

Interesting. The one problem is parking? I would think the biggest problem is that casinos are illegal in Florida unless it is on Indian land, and I doubt even the family has the clout to get that changed.

That aside, what type of clientele do you think a casino in Brownwood would draw? Multimillionaire whales who would skip Vegas, Atlantic City, and Monte Carlo to come here? Or would you get an endless stream of people gambling their social security and welfare checks, just as you get at just about every "reservation" casino I've seen. At Turning Stone (central NY, ostensibly run by the Oneida Indian Tribe, but actually owned by a group of lawyers from NYC), they would bus people in from 100 miles away, and kindly cash their SS and welfare checks for them. They even had buses that could accommodate the many people in wheelchairs and oxygen tanks that would sit all day in front of a slot machine while smoking 3 packs of cigarettes.

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Have to agree with you. Casino is a pie in the sky crazy idea……

A KatieBelle's type dance hall.

Mocktail? Anyone?
 

I just saw an interview with the woman who owns Hekate — a sober bar in NYC. She opened her sober bar across the street from the regular bar she owns. The sober bar stays really busy and I guess profitable.

The theater space is too big, but using part of it might be just the spot for a sober bar. I bet it would fly.

Google Hekate NYC and/or sober bar to find more info about sober bars. Is TV ready?

Boomer

. . .although, sometimes, I think (fondly, of course) that TV is the world’s biggest high school, so there would always be somebody who would smuggle in booze to spike the mocktails.

;) "KatieBelle's type" by that do you mean - one that loses money? Yeah..... that might work. :undecided: It's absolutely amazing the Developer has gotten as far as they have without the input of all the people that know so much more then they / their staff do. :popcorn:

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I know. I know it is excruciatingly tacky to quote myself. But I wanted to add to the Hekate thing. If you Google that particular sober bar, you will find an intriguing list of the mocktails and their ingredients.

Boomer

Sad, especially since movie pass is back. The theaters were always busy, no idea why someone decided to get rid of 2 out of 3 of them.

Because no one was going to the movies?

I believe the casinos in Vegas, Reno and other gaming locations get the bulk of their revenue from average Joe Blow there for the weekend. What is the difference between these same people you mention spending their money with a local bookie or at a casino? This country tried banning alcohol sales and consumption and there was more alcohol consumed during prohibition than before or after. People will find a way to satisfy their need to participate in their preferred vice. At least at the casino the operations are monitored, controlled and revenue paid to the local authority.

As far as Indian land, all you would have to do is get an individual who claims to have Indian blood sue for the land because his great, great, great Indian grandfather had an outhouse on that land. Land that was forcefully taken from his grandfather. If a bunch of New York City lawyers can pull it off, so can a bunch of Florida lawyers.

Makes more sense than anything I've seen suggested so far, or at least a more profitable suggestion.