No one was up in arms when it was looking like it was going to be bought out by Mounties and then move to a merge with the diggers, why the outrage now? Because the Penns profited instead of someone else?I wonder how the people would've voted originally if they had've known about the Penns cashing in the way they have?
I remember reading where the ?Chinese developers were going to keep the leagues club operating on the ground floor when they built their development. Seemed a bit of a stretch at the time.
What is happening with the future of the leagues club now? Penn was sprouting how great this was for the future of the club back then?
The reason they could profit for it is because the leagues club is not running a very strong business, it's in a location that does not suit most people and its facilities are dated.
The land is worth more than the building and business combined.
Sad with all the history that goes with it, but if it were more precious than memories and a principle everyone would have been voting with their business and been there every time they go out pumping cash into it!
If the dee why hotel couldn't survive the leagues club was never a chance. With dee why bowls essentially owning the "big club" thing in that area the only way to compete is a multi-million dollar make over or tear down and rebuild. I'd rather see those dollars go to brookie oval, wouldn't you?
Actually on game days the brookie hotel does much more business than the leagues club