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National Pinball Museum to close

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Necro:
Weird - I caught the tail end of this story on NPR last night and they never said it was a pinball museum in the few minutes I caught...only the 5 month thing, being booted, and I was like 'WTF...that's nuts...'

Also, it's the DC area - in Georgetown no less.  ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- around here is EXPENSIVE.

RayB:
You guys do know it's pretty much standard practice that in any commercial/industrial/retail space you lease, any upgrades / decor/ renos are on your dime right?  It's standard practice. What you do is make sure as much of your important decor investment as possible can be dismantled and re-installed at another location if you need to move.

Also AFAIK, in most retail spaces if you fail to pay your rent one month, the landlord can lock your doors and seize all contents.

Donkbaca:
landlord - tennant law will vary from state to state, and the portability of the improvements will depend on the nature of the improvements. 

That being said, putting 300k into a shop without even a firm commitment of occupancy is just dumb.

piecesof8:
I'm thinking he saw free rent for 2 years! and didn't really think it through beyond that. A quick google search on that place shows that it's not exactly the most stable location to sink a big investment into. Maybe both he and the former owners of the mall were overly optimistic about the amount of foot traffic the museum would bring in. The new owners, not so much.

http://www.nationalpinballmuseum.org/whats_new/NPM%20Response%20to%20Lease.pdf

Hopefully he'll be able to pull through this and open in a new location. One that has parking. And less hellish traffic. And he has enough money left to get a lawyer to look over the new lease.

Vigo:
I also think that since he is in a location that pretty much has museums flying out it's ass, nobody cares enough about another museum.  :-\

He would find a lot more support from the local chamber of commerce and from the community if this were in a city that wanted to put themselves on the map more with a unique attraction. Instead, this guy plops a museum in a back lot, dying mall and nobody thinks twice.

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