The Grand Canyon Is Getting A Mall

[okaawhatever]

Investment interests want to build a multi-tier mall at the Grand Canyon, and they’re paying off Navajo leaders—at least one who years ago resigned in disgrace—to do so.
If a collective of big money investment interests have their way, the 5 million people who flock to the Grand Canyon’ breathtaking vistas every year will also soon be able to get in some shopping and catch a film on an IMAX theatre built right on top of the canyon’s rim.

These investors have partnered with a faction of the native Navajo tribe’s leadership with promises of new jobs and gobs of money in exchange for—what else?—the land to build on. They want to construct a retail complex based around a tram that planners are calling the Escalade, which will stretch from the rim down to the floor, providing easy access to both a fragile ecosystem and sacred place to Native Americans.

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The group behind this project operates under the name Confluence Partners, LLC, and includes a variety of well-connected business and political types, as well as members of the Navajo tribe.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/18/the-grand-canyon-is-getting-a-mall.html

It's a sad day when the native Americans are selling out mother nature. You think that native American man was shedding a tear before......

[leftofcool]

1. Sad yes, the the Navajo people, no matter how much they love nature.............

also have to eat and have jobs. I agree that the mall is a sell out, but it is their land and far be it from me to tell them what to do with it. I would have preferred that the Navajo Tribe own the mall themselves, but they do not have the money to build it.

[yeoman6987]

2. I understand it is actually 5 miles from the Grand Canyon

But still considered on the property. When I first heard this, I was sad until I heard the details. Not as bad as I envisioned. And your right it is Native American property.

[packman]

3. And after eating their McBurgers or Hardee's they

can throw their trash into the largest waste basket on the planet. God, the trash will be mind-boggling. I thought of the tons of crap they are trying to get off Mt. Everest including dead bodies.

[AuntPatsy]

4. Just looked at the pictures of Mt Everest we are such a destructive species

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Thought the orginal idea included a Casino Hotel Complex.

What is so interesting is,were are they going to get their water? Water is hauled in for the Park Service Visitor Center now. Well permits will get interesting. Oh that's right,money talks and all else is history. Arizona has really turned into a arm pit.