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Trump's sons are running the business -- and their big hotel expansion is at a standstill
Looks like a Holiday Inn Select
Shortly after Donald Trump entered the White House, his eldest sons announced ambitious plans to open a new line of hotels called Scion that would target young, hip customers mostly in places where their father had proven popular with voters.
The first Scion would open in the Mississippi Delta in early 2018. A second line of hotels, called American Idea, would soon follow, with three in Mississippi and more than a dozen elsewhere. In all, the Trump Organization said it had preliminary agreements to open 39 new properties.
This was the brothers’ primary and boldest idea for expanding the family business — a push into markets that it had long overlooked, they said.
A year and a half later, progress has been slow. The first Scion, in Cleveland, Miss., remains nearly a year from completion. The first two American Idea hotels, in the same area, will not open until later this year.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trumps-sons-are-running-the-business--and-their-big-hotel-expansion-is-at-a-standstill/2019/01/03/d7016168-f96a-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html?utm_term=.d9a33f11f78d
My friend and I published magazines, directories, and guides for chambers of commerce and visitors associations. As such we would come into contact with lots of new businesses, many of whom we knew wouldn't make it. We would muse that they would be better off giving us a small sum for us to tell them why they will fail rather than invest tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in a business endeavor destined for failure. Who thought building hotels for young hip Trumpsters , itself an oxymoron, was a good idea or taking two star hotels and putting a Trump logo on them was a good idea?
SMFH
Fitzcaraldo
19 minutes ago
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As a longtime political junkie with extensive experience developing commercial property:
1) Why anybody would think Cleveland MS is a good location for an upscale hotel defies imagination;
and
2) Trump haters will never stay there and Trump's cultists can't afford to
The whole project has Failure written across it in Capital Letters
19 minutes ago
(Edited)
As a longtime political junkie with extensive experience developing commercial property:
1) Why anybody would think Cleveland MS is a good location for an upscale hotel defies imagination;
and
2) Trump haters will never stay there and Trump's cultists can't afford to
The whole project has Failure written across it in Capital Letters
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Cleveland, MS has lost 10% of its population in each of the last two censuses, with a 2016 Bureau estimate putting the population at 12,101 - that's down from 15,384 back in 1990.
Median household income - $29,466, and 25.5% of the city's population lives below the poverty line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland,_Mississippi
Nearest crossing of the Mississippi River to the south - 41 miles
Nearest crossing of the Mississippi River to the north - 61 miles
Nearest interstate highway (I-55 east) - 54 miles
So, yeah, location, location, location, right Eric? Right, Junior? 
Some Selects are actually very nice.
Fuck Trump. 
