Chicago Breaking News reports that Gary, Indiana Mayor Rudy Clay announced fundraising plans for a Michael Jackson museum.The onetime King of Pop was born in Gary and spent his early childhood there.
Well, I would have a little more confidence in the project if plans for it were announced in the Northwest Indiana city, not Las Vegas.
Details are sketchy, but besides the museum, the endeavor includes a hotel, a cultural center, and a replica of the Jackson family home, which still stands. Yes, that's me in front of it.
But why doesn't Gary move the house to downtown Gary?
As for a hotel, bombed-out is the best way to describe downtown Gary. An abandoned Holiday Inn--or maybe it was a Sheraton--still stands there. Nearby are the ruins of a train station. Gary's main drag, Broadway, is filled with boarded-up buildings.
Hoteliers won't be fighting each other to build a new property. Museum or not.
Yes, I'm cruel. But economics, after all, is the dismal science. Someone tell Clay, please.
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If the Mayor were smart he'd put a fence around the whole city, add a few admission gates, and call the place the Museum of Industrial Decline and Union Delusions.
ReplyDeleteLet's assume Rudy could pull it off; which he cannot as at his age the likelihood of his living long enough to raise the needed funds is not good; he would actually come to the "performing arts center" to put on a show, and who would come to see a show?
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