sNapshot oN 2013
more services, but perfecting the ones we
currently provide. That's my biggest challenge, and it always will be, wherever our
business is headed. It's about doing better
every day.
Bob Bedard, Converse: We are building
new stores and remolding others. We're
looking to brand our architecture. What
do our stores look like? How do our stores
perform? How are we related from a brand
standpoint to the customer? Right now, we
are doing a deep dive into that. Next year,
we're going to go back and tweak some
things, look at our stores in terms of where
they are in the market and how they should
be performing. Our Focus store focuses on
apparel. That's still new to us. We're doing
one in San Francisco. We are trying to find
out what that concept is supposed to look
like and how it is supposed to perform.
Randy Howe, Desert Diamond Casino:
The three casinos that we have, which are
12, seven and four years old, will go through
some remodeling in 2013. We will not do
as much on the two older properties we
have. But we will keep moving forward, and
hopefully, put all of our eggs in our West
Valley (Glendale, Ariz.) budget, hoping that
the casino starts in 2013 so we can open it
by November 2014.
Rick Hall, The Beam Team: We see things
picking up in 2013. When we look at our
pipeline, we sell all of our different customers starting to pull the trigger. Next year
should open up pretty strong.
The three casinos that
we have, which are 12,
seven and four years old,
will go through some
remodeling in 2013.
– Randy Howe, Desert Diamond Casinos
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CommerCial ConstruCtion & renovation — january : february 2013