Category Archives: Transportation

Quote of the Day

Posted on October 20, 2009 by David McKee

"I'd like to keep one strip of that airport as an airport. I think it closed prematurely. I think greed went nuts." — Atlantic City mayoral candidate Joseph Polillo (I), on what to do with Bader Field. Incumbent Mayor Lorenzo … Continue reading →

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MGM: CityCenter worth $4.88 billion

Posted on October 20, 2009 by David McKee

MGM Mirage has announced that it's writing off approximately $1.3 billion (i.e., taking an "impairment charge") against CityCenter, with $348 million of that chalked up to falling real estate values. (Some $174 million of that will apparently be fobbed off … Continue reading →

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Story of the Year

Posted on October 8, 2009 by David McKee

I want the movie rights to this. 'Nuff said. We're #1! For an overdue change, Nevada leads the nation in a good category (first item). And, if you scroll waaaaaaaaaaaay to the bottom, there's an interesting bit about and airfare-and-room … Continue reading →

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Want your ass kicked?

Posted on October 5, 2009 by David McKee

Then go hang out at Stack. If they don’t like your looks, the in-house goons will be sicced on you. And Las Vegans wonder at the schadenfreude so many people feel with regard to Sin City’s current doldrums. No magic … Continue reading →

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Case Bets: Wynn in Macao, "Peepshow" strips down

Posted on September 29, 2009 by David McKee

• Steve Wynn is accelerating his timetable for developing on the Cotai Strip™. If Wynn continues to learn from his early miscalculations (and I see no reason to expect otherwise), a gaming-centric Wynn Resorts property on Cotai is a far … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day

Posted on July 23, 2009 by David McKee

Sig Rogich’s choo-choo to nowhere. Some parts of Sig sold separately. “Even with the Victorville-Palmdale link, which is not a dead certainty, a Las Vegas rider who wanted to see the Magic Kingdom would have to travel from Sin City … Continue reading →

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Stormy weather

Posted on July 1, 2009 by David McKee

It may be monsoon season in Las Vegas but there’s a typhoon blowing through Macao‘s casino economy. A series of bulletins from J.P. Morgan outline a worrisome trajectory for China‘s gambling enclave. City of Dreams: a flop June 23: The … Continue reading →

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The Trop heist that wasn't

Posted on June 26, 2009 by David McKee

"An improvident indictment." That's what New Jersey officials are calling a case that was quietly quashed in May. Sacked Borgata veep John Conklin and two other men had been charged with plundering the Tropicana Atlantic City's database when they were … Continue reading →

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Not what the doctor ordered

Posted on June 23, 2009 by David McKee

While the Better Half and I managed to quaff at least some of the infamous bacon martini w/o negative ramifications, we were not so fortunate with Sunday night's visit to a certain casino buffet. Suffice it to say that the … Continue reading →

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Train to Nowhere II

Posted on June 15, 2009 by David McKee

Sig Rogich's choo-choo to nowhere won't really be the privately funded enterprise that it's being sold as, the Las Vegas Sun helpfully explains. Bottom line: Rail transportation is inherently unprofitable, so you and I will be ponying up for the … Continue reading →

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Xanadu: the prequel?

Posted on June 12, 2009 by David McKee

Martin Stern‘s 1975 conceptualization of a Xanadu casino-hotel, as virtually reconstructed by Dr. David G. Schwartz, struck a familiar chord with one S&G reader. They quickly detected a resemblance between Welton Becket‘s 1971 Disney’s Contemporary Resort, built in modular fashion … Continue reading →

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Gambling and hope

Posted on June 4, 2009 by David McKee

Andy Holtmann of Raving Consulting has a splendid essay on this very topic and the fine line that casinos must walk when playing to people's hopes. It carries particular weight as it's authored by someone who's taken a mighty wallop … Continue reading →

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(Slots A) Fun Fact

Posted on May 15, 2009 by David McKee

I've just read that the 2008 cash flow for Slots A Fun, the crown jewel of what used to be Circus Circus Enterprises, was $2.8 million. Which means that current owner MGM Mirage could justify a sale price of $22.5 … Continue reading →

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Station ixnays expansions

Posted on April 20, 2009 by David McKee

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 →

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