http://www.bahamar.com/ :jawdroop: Boy I tell ya!

hmmmmm

this is very scary...and to think goodman's bay will be gone...all for 40 million...it wasnt worth it!

this is very scary...and to think goodman's bay will be gone...all for 40 million...it wasnt worth it!


Tell that to the Cable Beach businesses, the taxi drivers and the people this project will employ.

Tell that to the Cable Beach businesses, the taxi drivers and the people this project will employ.

good question;)

http://www.bahamar.com/ :jawdroop: Boy I tell ya!


You just finding this? That was up a little while from the time that agreement was signed.

I wish them well- all I ask is that they can get their Casinos up and running in time for the 260+ folks here in Grand Bahama who are going to be losing their jobs in the next year because the 'Isle of capri' casino has decided to pull out of Grand Bahama when their contract expires.. Seems they are not making money- they are strapped for cash because of all the damamge to their places on the Gulf due to Katrina. According to the papers, they had asked for more allowances, favours, etc than the Gov't was prepared to give...
Didn't I read somewhere that "the economy is set to explode"...
Without a casino here-what are we supposed to do- train Dolphins to be croupiers?

We're supposed to hold on for Ginn..PPFFFTTT!!!!

Not that Ginn won happen but..it wont be really there for like a decade!

We're supposed to hold on for Ginn..PPFFFTTT!!!!

Not that Ginn won happen but..it wont be really there for like a decade!

10 years is a long time to wait on anything...you now how much the world will have changed...how much other opportunity that folks will let pass by them when we shouldve been implementing the development of our country ourselves...justing waiting waiting waiting...truth be told...GB (notice I didnt say freeport) could turn around in 10 months if it had the Govt support and vision.in 10 years all a yinna will know my name...;)

10 years is a long time to wait on anything...you now how much the world will have changed...how much other opportunity that folks will let pass by them when we shouldve been implementing the development of our country ourselves...justing waiting waiting waiting...truth be told...GB (notice I didnt say freeport) could turn around in 10 months if it had the Govt support and vision.in 10 years all a yinna will know my name...;)
Hasn't Atlantis been building for more than ten years?

Hasn't Atlantis been building for more than ten years?


True, but i feel that Atlantis and Ginn are very different in planning and in how those plans will be executed. That's why I think it wont be anything real for a decade. Ginn I believe is as big as Atlantis though (or bigger?) Perhaps people will work with Old Bahamaa Bay and their expansion.

Hasn't Atlantis been building for more than ten years?

read what he said...he posed his statement like GB folks would have to wait ten years for Ginn to pop off...I made the argument that 10 years waiting on anybody to do anything for you is wasting your time...when you could put your efforts and ambitions into making your own dreams come true...
Atlantis didnt take ten years to build it was up in 97......so by my calculations if that was up in 97 and it tooks ten years to get off the ground (though this isnt the case) that would have meant that (if indeed it took ten years) construction started in 87 which couldnt be the case anyway as Ping didnt entertain the company of South "Afrikans" wanting to do business in the Bahamas....so you are all wrong...stop grasping at straws ;)now if your talking about phase 2 or phase 3 or whatever they are what they are additions...


I must say as an aside and giving credit where it is due...no matter how I despise that monstrous pink atrocity/dream killing natural Bahamian environment raping and Cabbage Beach stealing plantation it did its part in saving the nassau tourism product...

The Ginn project is way different from Casinos and tourism- what they have here is another resort for the mega-rich to come down when and if it's convenient to them. When a Hurricane hits-these folks will have their fat asses on a plane quicker than you can say 'Conch'. They won't be back until the re-building has been done and their wine coolers have been re-stocked. Take a look at 'Old Bahama Bay'-I have never met anyone in downtown Freeport socially who lives there! They don't socialize, they don't interact with the community. They keep themselves to themselves and come and go on their yachts....nice. All the Ginn project is is an extension of the social divide that will almost have a frontier just outside of Eight Mile Rock.
I bought a piece of land on the East side of the waterway-in 20 yrs time-Grand Bahama will have 4 zones-Downtown Freeport, Eight Mile Rock, "The Western Tourism Zone and the "Lucayan East Normal People Zone"....
There are so many dilapidated buildings on canals and beaches already that have been vacated by folks who didn't have the will/capability/interest to re-invest. I don't see any difference in the 'old' snowbirds or this new breed that will live at 'Ginn-town". The bird-poop will look and smell the same....
I'm not knocking the Ginn project- it's just that I don't see it as being the panacea for all of GBI's ills, as some people would have us believe. There are more pressing problems that need to be addressed now.

The Ginn project is way different from Casinos and tourism- what they have here is another resort for the mega-rich to come down when and if it's convenient to them. When a Hurricane hits-these folks will have their fat asses on a plane quicker than you can say 'Conch'. They won't be back until the re-building has been done and their wine coolers have been re-stocked. Take a look at 'Old Bahama Bay'-I have never met anyone in downtown Freeport socially who lives there! They don't socialize, they don't interact with the community. They keep themselves to themselves and come and go on their yachts....nice. All the Ginn project is is an extension of the social divide that will almost have a frontier just outside of Eight Mile Rock.
I bought a piece of land on the East side of the waterway-in 20 yrs time-Grand Bahama will have 4 zones-Downtown Freeport, Eight Mile Rock, "The Western Tourism Zone and the "Lucayan East Normal People Zone"....
There are so many dilapidated buildings on canals and beaches already that have been vacated by folks who didn't have the will/capability/interest to re-invest. I don't see any difference in the 'old' snowbirds or this new breed that will live at 'Ginn-town". The bird-poop will look and smell the same....
I'm not knocking the Ginn project- it's just that I don't see it as being the panacea for all of GBI's ills, as some people would have us believe. There are more pressing problems that need to be addressed now.

Ive spoken to some folks whose close enough to the higher ups in govt and they believe that this is the way to go...and that's all they see...they feel that ginn is the best thing that will ever happen to Grand Bahama because we have all this land and "nothing else to do with it" I was so stunned they said that...

"Ive spoken to some folks whose close enough to the higher ups in govt and they believe that this is the way to go...and that's all they see...they feel that ginn is the best thing that will ever happen to Grand Bahama because we have all this land and "nothing else to do with it" I was so stunned they said that..."

It's sad when folks can't see further than their wallet...what happens when they run out of land...?