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Quote of the Day
"From a purely employment standpoint, I think we are already in overcorrection territory. How long can you sustain that lower standard of employment before you really start to impact customer service?" — Jeremy Aguero of Applied Analysis, pointing out that … Continue reading
Posted in Boulder Strip, Downtown, Economy, Labor, The Strip
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Planet Ho Towers peep show
As for Nov. 1, PH Towers — the Westgate condo component of Planet Hollywood — will be open for business. Time constraints preclude creating an entire photo gallery, so I’ll just direct you here. (Be warned that there’s some damned … Continue reading
Posted in Downtown, Entertainment, Planet Hollywood, The Strip
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Quote of the Day
“The surroundings and clientele here are just too rough. (Ironic, but true: The first two letters on the Western marquee are burned out, so it simply reads, ‘STERN.’ It’s an apt description.” — description of an aborted fact-finding mission to … Continue reading
Posted in Downtown, Tamares Group
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Slots A Fun defeats Donald Trump
I'm not sure if you can see the "unique page views" counter on this blog or not but, as of Friday afternoon, people prefer to read about Slots A Fun than about the bizarre reasoning patterns of one Donald J. … Continue reading
Posted in Donald Trump, Downtown, The Strip, Tilman Fertitta
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Quote of the Day
"We don't see them getting worse. The problem is we don't see them getting better." — Boyd Gaming CEO Keith Smith on 2009-10 tourism statistics for Las Vegas.
Posted in Boyd Gaming, Downtown, Economy, LVCVA, The Strip
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Quote of the Day
"The caller instructed me to look out the window and across the street. "I replied that our building has no external windows …" — metaphorical explanation for the insular worldview of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, provided by Editor Thomas Mitchell … Continue reading
Moulin Rouge, R.I.P.
For those of you who live outside of Southern Nevada, here's an excellent seven-minute summation of the rise and fall of the Moulin Rouge, beginning with yesterday's fire. The conflagration effectively writes finis to any further attempts to revive the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Downtown
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Station ixnays expansions
Stick a fork in Castaways Station — the forlorn patch of Fremont Street land is on the block … albeit at a considerable markup. Station Casinos, according to The Associated Press, is asking for $39.5 million on a vacant 30-acre … Continue reading
Posted in Boulder Strip, Boyd Gaming, Downtown, Station Casinos, Transportation
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First, some good news
In a refreshing change of pace comes news of a casino that’s on schedule for its opening. OK, so it’s in Dodge City, Kansas, but we’ll take good news wherever we can get it these days. Whoever thought avionics firm … Continue reading
Posted in Downtown, Economy, Entertainment, Herbst Gaming, Kansas, Labor, LVCVA, Marketing, Mesquite, Sheldon Adelson, Station Casinos, The Strip
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Quote of the Day
“I say I would greet him if he would rectify the record. I think he owes it to us, and I say that respectfully, to say Las Vegas is a great place to come and do business.” — Las Vegas … Continue reading
‘Golden’ customer service
Kudos to Mark Brandenburg, the managing partner of the Golden Gate. His frequent on-site presence and accessibility to guests really brightened the experience of some recent Vegas visitors. They’d had multiple bad experiences at Binion’s Gambling Hall and the Four … Continue reading
Quote of the Day
"The point of convergence is the obligatory version of Louis Armstrong singing 'What A Wonderful World,' apparently required for an impressionist to obtain a Clark County business license." — Mike Weatherford on the common denominator between Danny F. Gans, Terry … Continue reading
Posted in Downtown, Entertainment
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This is your industry on crack
Finally, someone (in this case, Liz Benston) has written the definitive user-friendly analysis of how the casino industry crashed and burned. To try and quote the salient points would require little short of reprinting the entire article (to say nothing … Continue reading
Posted in Boyd Gaming, Colony Capital, Downtown, Economy, Harrah's, Herbst Gaming, Isle of Capri, Louisiana, MGM Mirage, Missouri, Station Casinos, The Strip, Wall Street
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Boyd vs. Station II
Well, that was a waste of a good hour. Boyd Gaming teased its Thursday morning conference call with intimations that All (or at least Some) Would Be Revealed about its surprise bid for most of the assets of Station Casinos. … Continue reading
Posted in Atlantic City, Boulder Strip, Boyd Gaming, Downtown, Economy, Florida, Harrah's, Indiana, Louisiana, Station Casinos, The Strip, Tribal, Wall Street
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Gibbons retreats, sorta
Gov. Jim Gibbons has scuttled away from one of his several proposals to jack up taxes on the only segment of Nevada that's carrying its own weight — the casino bidness. He's retreating from a demand that casinos pay taxes … Continue reading
Posted in Atlantic City, Boulder Strip, Boyd Gaming, Colony Capital, Columbia Sussex, Donald Trump, Downtown, Economy, M Resort, Marketing, Mesquite, Movies, Politics, Station Casinos, Taxes, TV, Wall Street
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Looking for good news in Vegas
If I wanted to drive myself to strong drink, I could write about depressing, atrocious numbers coming out of Nevada casinos in December. But as that great philosopher, Linus in Peanuts, would remind me, it's better to light a single … Continue reading
Posted in Atlantic City, Boulder Strip, Boyd Gaming, Downtown, Economy, Gary Goett, George Maloof, Harrah's, Laughlin, MGM Mirage, Michael Gaughan, Morgans Hotel Group, Station Casinos, Tamares Group, Texas, The Strip, Tilman Fertitta, Tribal, Wall Street
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Tamares' good deed
Lichtenstein-based Tamares Group bought a gaggle of downtown Las Vegas casinos from Jackie Gaughan five years ago and hasn't seemed to know what to do with them since. However, one unpublicized kindness by Tamares — brought to our notice by … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Downtown, Tamares Group
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Sign of the times II
This image, taken Saturday at the Plaza Hotel & Casino downtown, pretty much speaks for itself. Auction holders Real Estate Disposition Corp. were scheduled to hold another auction today. The choice of the down-on-her-luck Plaza as venue is apt … … Continue reading
Posted in Downtown, Economy, Sheldon Adelson, Tamares Group, Tropicana Entertainment
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Something new for Downtown
Roughly two months hence, the El Cortez will open its extension, the Cabana Suites at the El Cortez (yes, that's the full name). It's to be a 64-unit mix of rooms, mini-suites and suites. According to the PR folks … … Continue reading
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