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kpete

(71,997 posts)
Wed Oct 2, 2019, 06:40 PM Oct 2019

Trump's plans for major expansion of Turnberry resort rejected

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Trump Turnberry has run up losses of nearly �33m under the US president's ownership. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty


The Trump Organisation’s plans for a major expansion of its flagship Scottish resort by building swaths of housing and luxury villas have been thwarted, further jeopardising efforts by the US president’s company to stem multimillion pound losses at its most prestigious overseas property.

Donald Trump’s firm wanted to significantly increase the footprint of its Trump Turnberry resort, with his son, Eric, personally overseeing blueprints for a new housing development on landholdings surrounding the historic golf venue.

The Trump Organisation enlisted architects in an attempt to rezone agricultural land for development, pointing to the firm’s “excellent track record of investment” in the region and describing the proposals as “very positive for the area.”

However, The Scotsman has learned that planners at a Scottish local authority have rejected the Trump Organisation’s request to reclassify the vast tracts of farmland along the rugged Firth of Clyde coastline for housing.



https://www.scotsman.com/news/trump-s-plans-for-major-expansion-of-turnberry-resort-rejected-1-5016324
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Trump's plans for major expansion of Turnberry resort rejected (Original Post) kpete Oct 2019 OP
GOOD! 50 Shades Of Blue Oct 2019 #1
Good for Scotland! smirkymonkey Oct 2019 #2
Too true leftieNanner Oct 2019 #4
I second that bdamomma Oct 2019 #8
And this is only the beginning leftieNanner Oct 2019 #3
In other news, a tariff was just placed on Scotch whiskey! Tanuki Oct 2019 #5
Womp womp fleur-de-lisa Oct 2019 #6
Scotland is gonna regret this! jcgoldie Oct 2019 #7
Instead, little Eric Trump can go cap in hand and beg some Russian Oligarchs for money. Doodley Oct 2019 #9
Doesn't Putin like to play golf ? magicarpet Oct 2019 #10
Hopefully Trump wont decide to bomb Scotland. Nt. drray23 Oct 2019 #11
Was he planning to house more military personnel there? ecstatic Oct 2019 #12
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
2. Good for Scotland!
Wed Oct 2, 2019, 06:46 PM
Oct 2019

Doesn't he get the fact that these people hate him and that he is hated around the world? Who does he think his market is going to be?

The only people that are pro-Trump can't afford to stay in one of his resorts and he has to bribe foreign governments and order our own military to stay at his properties just to keep them afloat.

His brand is as good as dead.

leftieNanner

(15,124 posts)
4. Too true
Wed Oct 2, 2019, 06:48 PM
Oct 2019

And once we boot him out of OUR HOUSE, then all those fishy foreign dollars will go POOF!

All he will have left is the Russian oligarch laundry money.

bdamomma

(63,883 posts)
8. I second that
Wed Oct 2, 2019, 07:05 PM
Oct 2019

good for Scotland. Well it's good to know that our European allies won't take no BS from that POS.

leftieNanner

(15,124 posts)
3. And this is only the beginning
Wed Oct 2, 2019, 06:46 PM
Oct 2019

LOSER! You just wait until your entire "evil empire" comes crashing down around your head.

(What do you think? Too harsh?)

jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)
7. Scotland is gonna regret this!
Wed Oct 2, 2019, 06:52 PM
Oct 2019

With Eric in charge how could it have gone wrong?

Maybe he could call up the First Minister and twist her arm... gather up up Barr and Pompeo, Pence and the gang everybody get on the line...

magicarpet

(14,155 posts)
10. Doesn't Putin like to play golf ?
Wed Oct 2, 2019, 08:31 PM
Oct 2019

Why not build 10 to 15 golf courses over in Russia. That should be a big hit and very profitable.

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