The endgame for Deitch began in March, after The Times reported that LACMA and its director, Michael Govan, had made an offer to absorb MOCA while keeping its name and downtown operations and raising $100 million as part of the deal.
His own group, he said, had to deal with matters like finding a new site for its downtown TKTS operation, which had been in the World Trade Center.
Both Tuli brothers, in separate interviews, insisted that the downtown Montreal touchscreen operation plays a key role in that.
Instead, prompted by a bar-owner friend, Hsieh moved the operation downtown to try to apply Triumph of the City.
"Our hotels are full down here with spring break visitors," he said, adding that the special police operation downtown has now made Acapulco safer than ever before.
When Interior Minister Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, the most powerful figure in the cabinet of the unpopular President Enrique Peña Nieto, turned up at a rescue operation downtown for a photo op, volunteers and workers chased him out, jeering and calling him an opportunist.
"We felt it imperative that we move as quickly as possible to resume operations downtown," Ms. Bailey said.
Other ski companies, like Scott USA and Rossignol, have established small operations downtown or in Business Depot Ogden, an industrial park north of downtown.
After suspending operations downtown for three weeks, making use of its office at 1 Rockefeller Plaza, the firm returned on Oct. 1.
For others with operations downtown, plans made to deal with a problem that turned out not to be one -- the Y2K situation -- were ultimately quite useful after the Sept. 11 attack.
