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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed May 24, 2017, 11:14 AM May 2017

Trump SoHo Plans Layoffs

Source: WNYC News



May 24, 2017 · by Ilya Marritz and Andrea Bernstein

In its heyday, Trump SoHo was a destination. Celebrity-filled limos regularly pulled up, and delighted tourists snapped selfies in front of the glassy tower. Rooms at the five-star hotel cost over $700 a night, and the Koi restaurant on the ground floor rocked.

But five months into the Trump administration, it turns out that the Trump name may be undesirable in lower Manhattan. Bookings for corporate events are down sharply, and the hotel is planning layoffs.

Today, you can find rooms for under $400 a night, several hundred dollars less than other five-star Manhattan hotels — less even than some four-star hotels. Citing a post-election slump, Koi Restaurant has left a month earlier than planned, leaving an empty locked space off the lobby. And managers are prepared to lay off twelve room attendants (out of a housekeeping staff of 80) and eliminate turn-down service, two sources confirmed to WNYC.

Documents reviewed by WNYC show the hotel’s conference and events business is also suffering: last year, the hotel booked 29 large corporate events between January and mid-May, for the likes of Citibank, GE, and Amazon. This year, it was down to 11 events, with fewer well-known names.

Read more: http://www.wnyc.org/story/trump-soho-plans-layoffs/

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brush

(53,837 posts)
4. It's going to happen to his brand all over the world, and Ivanka's
Wed May 24, 2017, 11:29 AM
May 2017

They'll be sorry he ever even though or running for president.

But we've seen it before. He always runs his businesses into the ground.

I mean if you go bankrupt running casinos where it's just about guaranteed money, you have no business in business.

IronLionZion

(45,516 posts)
5. I suspect the casinos were scams for money laundering
Wed May 24, 2017, 11:33 AM
May 2017

and designed to lose money. It may be the same with his other businesses since he has a long history of screwing over his investors, workers, and contractors.

brush

(53,837 posts)
7. Agreed for the most part. But casinos have been laundering money for forever.
Wed May 24, 2017, 11:36 AM
May 2017

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I mean why go through all the trouble of building, licensing and hiring a business that almost prints money to just let it go bankrupt after some money laundering?

Hell, the casinos in Vegas are still running and you just know there's been much money laundering through them.

IronLionZion

(45,516 posts)
12. probably an issue of scale
Wed May 24, 2017, 12:51 PM
May 2017

which is why the mob originally got into casinos. The restaurants and small businesses were not enough to launder the massive amount of money they were dealing with from their drug business.

I don't know what the Trumps are into but I sure hope someone is investigating to find out.

Lucky Luciano

(11,258 posts)
13. Too much borrowing. Vegas almost went bankrupt in 2008.
Wed May 24, 2017, 01:29 PM
May 2017

Customers evaporated and they had huge debts. Also new casinos sprouting up all over the place hurt the businesses given their high overhead of real estate, employees, and loan payments. Dump running a business would make it worse of course.

kimbutgar

(21,181 posts)
9. I saw an ivanka blouse in Marshall's yesterday
Wed May 24, 2017, 11:48 AM
May 2017

I want to see her empire collapse but they are still selling her garbage clothes is appalling. I think her company is a front for Russia money laundering. The think the Russians really bankrolled his election and I hope the intelligence community and his supporters are finally connecting the dots.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
14. I want to see
Wed May 24, 2017, 02:00 PM
May 2017

ALL their business dealings fail. I want them to have to spend their $$$ on lawyers, trying to keep them out of prison. Kushner is a slum loard, too. Read all about him on Raw Story. These tRumps think think they are royalty, when they are truly just descendants of a well known PIMP. Grandpa was a brothel keeper.

kimbutgar

(21,181 posts)
15. So much of what they are, are so slimy.
Wed May 24, 2017, 02:18 PM
May 2017

They are liars and cheaters several generations back. Great Grandpa was also a draft dodger in Germany like his grandson.

Saviolo

(3,283 posts)
3. I feel bad for the workers
Wed May 24, 2017, 11:26 AM
May 2017

But I sincerely hope that this is the end of the Trump brand. I hope that brand crashes and burns after this, and he's evicted from his Napoleonic gold rooftop mansion.

I mean, he's going to have secret service protection for the rest of his life, but maybe they're going to have to get used to living in a bungalow in the NJ burbs instead of high atop Manhattan.

DK504

(3,847 posts)
10. I see another bankruptcy in his future.
Wed May 24, 2017, 11:48 AM
May 2017

He'll say he's not responsible for the fleeing of customers nor will he pay a thing because he's "president. Won't he have to present some financial records if the dump goes belly up?

Will all his Russian friends book some conventions at the SoHo, maybe some of his Birchers buds....

brush

(53,837 posts)
11. Wasn't trump just going on about "jobs, jobs, jobs"?
Wed May 24, 2017, 11:56 AM
May 2017

And he can't even keep people working at his branded hotels (not his really, just his name rented out on them).

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