Hmmmm … I hear tell Pinnacle Entertainment just upped the budget* on its Baton Rouge casino. Maybe it can amortize that increase by bargain-shopping at Uncle Carl’s Honkin’ Big Hotel Furniture Emporium (aka “Hot Carl’s Fabulous Fontainebleau Garage Sale”) right-cheer on the Las Vegas Strip. C’mon down! The first 100 bidders get a free budgie. (Sorry; obscure SCTV reference.) Hey, Gary Loveman, save a bundle on second-hand F-bleau furniture and you could finish the Octavius Tower in a trice.
* — Then again, that’s quite the bitch-slap that Pinnacle CEO Anthony Sanfilippo laid on Icahn’s Tropicana Entertainment as well as Penn National Gaming. Maybe Pinnacle won’t be so welcome at Uncle Carl’s rummage sale, after all.
David,
I see that you got the auction date right; the 9/29 LVA News has it as today, 9/29. I sent them a note asking for a correction in the News in case any readers want to bid.
BTW, I wonder if Tamares will be bidding. They could save a bundle on fixtures and furniture for their (supposed) refurbishment of the Plaza. Yeah, right – as if they would even be looking at anything more expensive than KMart stuff.
I just re-read this .. and how prophetic Kerr Mudgeon proved to be: Many F-blew furnishings have indeed found their way to the Plaza.