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Part VIII — The Decade
A destination is judged not by its opening night but by its tenth anniversary. Build for the anniversary.
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Opening night is theater. The decade is the test. The destinations that endure are the ones whose thesis is still legible after a recession, a renovation, a leadership change, and a generation of new guests.
If the sentence still holds at year ten, the building has earned the multiple. If it doesn't, the multiple was always borrowed.
The patient operator wins not because patience is virtuous, but because compounding meaning is the only edge that scales.