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Wednesday, June 15, 2011 | 5:26 p.m.
All you saw was the happiness and gushing and sea of blue Zappos shirts at City Hall today as the council ratified The Greatest Deal Ever Made.
But why did the terms get changed so favorably for Zappos and prospective partner, Resort Gaming Group?
Maybe because Zappos threatened to scuttle the downtown deal that will Forever Change Downtown unless the city rolled over -- again?
See the document at right.
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This seems personal Jon. Twice, in your 500 word article, you capitalized phrases that people have used to describe the deal.
Can you think of any major headquarter moves where no changes happened in the two years leading up to it? Wasn't this expected with such a big transaction? It was clear in the original agreement that the city actually expected changes to be made between when they agreed to allow Zappos to move in and when the company actually moved.
Also, shouldn't you point out that Zappos is currently residing in a Greenspun-owned building and your parent company probably has its feelings hurt over lost rev? Are you bummed that Zappos won't be right across the street from you? You could probably still have free frozen yogurt when they move downtown Jon. You are typically great in your reporting, but this seems a little petty.
When you are playing with Amazon you have to realize that they play hard ball. They are very hard on their vendors so this stuff does not surprise me.
Oh dear...Zappos not taking well to criticism? Perhaps all isn't rosy in the Emerald City after all? Something unexpected hiding behind the curtain?
There's nothing petty about the piece. Zappos clearly bullied the city to get what they wanted. All we ever read about is their profitability and yet they want to nickle and dime Downtown? Doesn't really seem to me like they're such great community supporters to extort the City into lowering what was already a stupidly cheap price. Oscar should have called their bluff and told them to move to L.A. and pull that crap.
Greed is greed and it feeds itself. You can serve up all the ice cream and song and dance numbers you want but so far the only entity winning in this arrangement is Zappos. Let's see how much they REALLY do for Downtown.
I love the Sun. Yet again, they come out with two articles, the coulda, woulda dovetailed.
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WELL IT'S OFFICIAL!!!! The new leaders of downtown are just the the old ones, a bunch of lying money hungry son of a @#$@$%@
Why hasn't there been more comment about the city paying $1.75 million of a piece of land in order to hold it to give to Resort Gaming Group somewhere down the line? That $1.75 million gone, and more land off the tax rolls.
How do you say giveaway?