Episode 6
”From San Cataldo to New York; The unauthorized biography” (episode 6)
The recipe is “simple” of course: to develop the economy of a country, you have to accommodate large conferences. That’s it. Catania, Joseph Cala, expected in ten years, one and a half million new jobs.
Now by the City and the Mayor Scapagnini, Mr. Cala is awaiting the okay for the approval of the development plan. “We need only a thousand acres!” He says. “And then, boom, we will so many skyscrapers as Las Vegas, Los Angeles.
Catania is beautiful. There Etna and the sea. It is not as gray as Hamburg, Frankfurt or Milan. In Rome, Venice and Florence – thinks the owner of the CCA – do not want to hear of congresses. Catania is the place! If you build the largest conference center in the world – dream of the Sicilian American Scrooge – then, all the major hotels arrive.
‘‘..Because the money to hotels, aren’t made by some sun and beach. But large conference centers. It ‘s already happened so in Las Vegas, Los Angeles … “. J.C.