Casino Expansion Update

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• Typical Windsorites on this page. Whine, bitch, complain, cry, etc. Always quick to find blame in everything. Some idiot says that they could build the expansion in two months if this were Toronto or two weeks if this were China. What a load of crap. Typical morons who always bitch yet they have nothing to suggest to improve. The "union" donating the workers pay to the United Way. Moron! The members themselves gave money, not the "union". Comments about the non-union Toyota....well moron, tell that to the Toyota workers in Japan who are members of a Japanese auto union. Perhaps if the Big 3 were to design and engineer smaller more fuel efficient cars people would be flocking to them now. Look at the new Ford Taurus. For finally figured it out, they redesigned the 500, new engine, hundreds of engineering improvements and suddenly that sucker is getting 40 mpg on the highway and greatly improved mileage in the city. Blame all that on the union. Perhaps if all of us in North America would quite driving trucks, SUVs and cars with V8 engines... D'uh. I work in a small union shop and four of my coworkers drive BMWs. Two of the drivers are multi-millionaires whose got that way because of the good times in Windsor. How do they pay back everybody else? Buying German built autos. Smart move. Your fellow morons. Tell us again how the CAW is at fault with everything? I love all those great Windsorites lining up at the local BMW, Toyota, Nissan and Mercedes dealers. I can't wait for Chrysler to split from Daimler. Then all the executives and non-union management at Chrysler will have to give up their leases on the Mercedes which they jumped at when Chrysler was bought out. Like the stickers say....Keep buying foreign!!

• Let's get back to the Casino expansion people. For those complaining about how long it has taken to build, take a look across the border. Two of the new Casinos started long before Windsor's expansion started. Stop complaining. The expansion of Casino Windsor is long overdue and very complex. People see another hotel going up. Much more to it than that. A hundred thousand sq.ft. of convention space and a five thousand seat auditorium included in the project. Major refit of the existing structure and a complete refreshing of the current gaming floor. Major, MAJOR changes that take time.

  What should have happened was the city tearing down the Windsor Housing Authority apartment building on Riverside Drive. Move that structure elsewhere and expand Casino Windsor onto that site. Great sight lines from Detroit and a furthering of a major facility that any city in North America would want instead of sticking it in behind an old apartment building.

  And don't think for one second that people won't come back to Casino Windsor. Start bringing in major names to the new auditorium and major events to the convention space and people will be back! Michigan is a year or two away from going smoke free so that upper hand that they have will be gone. Fortunately for Casino Windsor, Detroit screwed up and let their three Casinos be built throughout the core of the city rather than in a new casino district which former mayor Archer wanted. Stupid mistake but that's good for us. Better for us would be a second Casino right next to Casino Windsor. Tear down those old rooming houses and other just to the east of Casino Windsor and put up a new facility. Go to Vegas. People like to wander between Casinos. Another one, even though I believe it would have to be run by Caeser's given whatever agreement the province singed years ago, a new Bally's branded Casino would go nuts. The dynamic would be excellent.

  The only thing holding back the American's will be the stupidity of the Grocery Police, wait, I mean the Customs Officers at the border.