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barbee0715 said:
True, about being owned by the state. But I don't see why they couldn't buy it from Indiana and the state could build a new better school.
(They need/deserve an up to date modern school anyway).
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That would be nice but i don't see that happen. It bad in Gary alots of run down houses and bussiness that are abandon it is a mess i do not know how the ppls are making it there.

It does help when the fans come to visit seen that Michael house is a landmark because he was a icon. I read somewhere there was a problem with taxs the Jackson did not pay any taxs and that is why nothing can not be build there in Gary.

Do you really see the Estate getting involed in this?
 
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pminton said:
That would be nice but i don't see that happen. It bad in Gary alots of run down houses and bussiness that are abandon it is a mess i do not know how the ppls are making it there.

It does help when the fans come to visit seen that Michael house is a landmark because he was a icon. I read somewhere there was a problem with taxs the Jackson did not pay any taxs and that is why nothing can not be build there in Gary.

Do you really see the Estate getting involed in this?
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Dang.
That sucks.
But that's why I said they could build the museum in Hollywood.
Maybe even Las Vegas would be a good place for it....
 
Bump :3
I don't bump often, but I wanted to bump this thread just incase some people haven't seen it yet, and because I really like the idea. :D
If bumping isn't allowed please tell me, and I won't do it again. :3
 
Well, I couldn't find a thread for auctions alone, and this one ended tonight (when I found out about it), but his gorgeous red sweater from the AMAs was auctioned off tonight. This makes me so sad-unless the Estate bought it, guess it won't be in the museum. I wonder who had it and sold it.

STYLE NOTES: MICHAEL JACKSON'S TUNIC UP FOR AUCTION; KENDALL JENNER UNRECOGNIZABLE IN MARC JACOBS AD

6:17 PM PDT 6/22/2016 by Sam Reed

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In case you missed it.

Michael Jackson's Red Tunic from the 1981 AMAs Up for Auction [RR Auction]
A bedazzled red tunic worn by Michael Jackson at the 1981 American Music Awards is up for auction online at Boston-based auction house, RR Auction. The current bid stands at $6,600, however the piece is estimated to go for more than $100K. The tunic comes with a pair of gray silk trousers featuring a rhinestone stripe down outer the seam and a sewn-in label reading "Michael," which were custom made for the singer's big night. However, Jackson ultimately paired the tunic with jeans for the show.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/style-notes-michael-jacksons-tunic-905653
 
barbee0715 said:
Well, I couldn't find a thread for auctions alone, and this one ended tonight (when I found out about it), but his gorgeous red sweater from the AMAs was auctioned off tonight. This makes me so sad-unless the Estate bought it, guess it won't be in the museum. I wonder who had it and sold it.

STYLE NOTES: MICHAEL JACKSON'S TUNIC UP FOR AUCTION; KENDALL JENNER UNRECOGNIZABLE IN MARC JACOBS AD

6:17 PM PDT 6/22/2016 by Sam Reed

american_music_awards_michael_jackson_h_2016.jpg

In case you missed it.

Michael Jackson's Red Tunic from the 1981 AMAs Up for Auction [RR Auction]
A bedazzled red tunic worn by Michael Jackson at the 1981 American Music Awards is up for auction online at Boston-based auction house, RR Auction. The current bid stands at $6,600, however the piece is estimated to go for more than $100K. The tunic comes with a pair of gray silk trousers featuring a rhinestone stripe down outer the seam and a sewn-in label reading "Michael," which were custom made for the singer's big night. However, Jackson ultimately paired the tunic with jeans for the show.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/style-notes-michael-jacksons-tunic-905653
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I really do wish that all of Michael's stuff stayed with the estate, but when it comes to the museum I would prefer for replicas of Michael's things to be in it anyways.
I wouldn't trust for some crazy person not to try to ruin, or steal one or more of MJ's items, so I would prefer for replicas to be at risk then actual items. :)
 
URGENT
Follow-up File
Follow-up File: Michael Jackson museum, complex plans in limbo
From the See the latest Follow-up File here! series

Phil Wieland phil.wieland@nwi.com, (219) 662-5324 Updated 17 hrs ago

Philip Potempa, The Times
Starting in 2009, just months after Michael Jackson’s death, his father, Joe Jackson

David Becker
Joe Jackson, left, the father of Michael Jackson and Rudy Clay, mayor of Gary, at a news conference Oct. 28, 2009, to officially announce the start of the Jackson Family Project and capital campaign inside the Brenden Theatre at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas.
GARY — Plans for a $300 million Michael Jackson entertainment complex appear to have been relegated to the back burner, if they are even still on the stove.

Background

Discussed off and on while the King of Pop was still alive, plans for a family-oriented complex seemed to take a leap forward when his father Joe Jackson and then-Mayor Rudy Clay announced at a news conference in Las Vegas plans for a $300 million complex in 2009 shortly after MJ’s death.

The artist’s sketch of the proposal promised a lavish landscape on a 10-acre parcel owned by the city between City Hall and the Genesis Convention Center with a hotel, museum and a shopping center with restaurants and a state-of-the-art performing arts center.

The fundraising for the project started at the Vegas event with a check presented for $10,000, and Jackson hosted private events to sell memorial bricks, priced from $100, and other features, such as benches for $1,000.

A year later, the city gave the project a two-month extension to get registered as a tax-exempt nonprofit in Indiana. By then, the project also included a golf course and stadium and a prediction by Clay that construction could begin as early as 2011.


What’s next



Apparently not much.

Asked for an update of the project, Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson said, “While the thought of using Roosevelt School or a portion of it was a part of the previous discussions, there is no update in regard to a Michael Jackson Museum.”




Welp, that's kinda disappointing.
 
^^I don't know if the estate ever considered Gary for a museum. I've always heard Vegas or Hayvenhurst.
But it would be nice if there was some kind of Family Museum there-that incorporates their house and Roosevelt.
I don't know how many tourists come aside from Michael's birthday but I'm surprised somebody hasn't started some kind of bus tour to see significant sights: the schools, Mr. Lucky's, the steel mill, etc.
 
Pink - this sounds like a very similar idea I had years back when MJ first passed but I stated that it should be at Neverland... Now that part will def. not happen!

I'd love an MJ History Museum
 
I know the Estate sent out some "feelers" on opening Hayvenhurst but that was a few years ago now. I wonder if they're holding off because of the family or the IRS thing-
In the meantime, looks like Prince's home is going to start opening for tours this fall:

https://www.yahoo.com/music/princes-paisley-park-open-public-000922660.html

ETA: just saw on the news that the same company that manages Graceland will manage Paisley Park.
 
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