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Originally posted by: pjstroh
I'm not too sad to see the Echelon go away - not sure how I felt about an Alpine Village in hot, dry Southern NV.
Are you sure you are thinking of Echelon? I don't recall it having any particular theme, and a quick review of the plans at Vegastodayandtomorrow.com doesn't seem to show any. Perhaps you were thinking of Montreux, the plan for the New Frontier prior to it being planned to be the new Plaza prior to its plan to be a hot dry flat space of sand where Steve Wynn planted a few palm tree's so his guests wouldn't have to look at it.
As for F-Blue, I doubt there will be any progress for a few years at least. I remember reading a while back the cost was still substantial to complete it and Wikipedia says "As of November 2009, the cost to complete the resort is an estimated US$1 to 1.5 billion". Transfer that to 2013 dollars, add a bit for 5 years of deterioration, add a bit more to cover possible overruns and its still a pretty good chunk of change. It looks like the same type of market that the Cosmopolitan is going for and since they've been struggling I can't see it in the short term. If the economy recovers, SLS, (the Sahara), and the new Echelon open then it starts to look a little more promising.
