{"id":1012,"date":"2008-12-08T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/12\/8\/Expunging-the-Columbia-Sussex-brand"},"modified":"2008-12-08T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T00:40:00","slug":"expunging-the-columbia-sussex-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/expunging-the-columbia-sussex-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Expunging the Columbia Sussex brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <strong>Columbia Sussex<\/strong> ran its <strong>Tropicana Entertainment<\/strong> casino hotels the way it maintains its regular hotels, TropEnt CEO <strong>Scott Butera<\/strong> is looking at a big refurbishment tab. <strong>Southwest Hospitality Management<\/strong> picked up a couple of ColSux discards in Charleston, W.V., in June &apos;07 (which would coincide with a period in which ColSux was trying to sell off assets to pay down Trop-related debt) and, &quot;I feel that if we hadn&apos;t <a href=\"http:\/\/sundaygazettemail.com\/News\/Business\/200812060217\" class=\"broken_link\">done the renovations<\/a>, we would be hurting more than we are now,&quot; according to an SHM exec. (Plus, in a reversal from ColSux policy, wi-fi is now free.) &quot;It is certainly more pleasant and looks more modern &#8230; not what they used to be.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Another ringing endorsement of the Columbia Sussex spare-every-expense business model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Columbia Sussex ran its Tropicana Entertainment casino hotels the way it maintains its regular hotels, TropEnt CEO Scott Butera is looking at a big refurbishment tab. Southwest Hospitality Management picked up a couple of ColSux discards in Charleston, W.V., &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/expunging-the-columbia-sussex-brand\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}