Business Services Industry
Sosa eatery pitched: Silverbergs whiff with investors, try selling new project's naming rights.
Crain's Chicago Business, March, 2000 by BAEB, EDDIE
After failing to raise enough money to open a Sammy Sosa restaurant, longtime Chicago businessmen Gene and Joe Silverberg are now in talks to sell the rights to the project to a group of local investors. Joseph N. Gomez, a former banker and well-known Democratic fund-raiser, says he has agreed in principle to buy the licensing rights to a Sosa restaurant from the Silverbergs.
Mr. Gomez also says he and two managing partners he wouldn't name have agreed on a price with the owner of the building at 500 N. LaSalle St., which houses the now-defunct Michael Jordan's Restaurant. Mr. Gomez says he plans to convert the building into Sammy Sosa's Restaurant and open by July. But there's no deal yet for the name or the building, and Mr. Gomez wouldn't say how much...
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
