{"id":10535,"date":"2013-03-05T12:52:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T20:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=10535"},"modified":"2025-05-27T09:54:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:54:43","slug":"resorts-world-lv-look-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/resorts-world-lv-look-familiar\/","title":{"rendered":"Resorts World LV: Look familiar?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reader in Arizona<\/strong> asks the question that was on my mind yesterday and probably yours, too: “Is it just me … or does this look like just a copper\/gold-colored version of CityCenter<\/strong>?<\/em>”
\nAgreed! (With a large helping of Mandalay Bay<\/strong> slopped around the front and sides. Look, if you want originality, you don’t phone up Paul Steelman<\/strong>.) Not only that, it vaguely resembles Jim Murren<\/strong>‘s original “bubble drawings” for CityCenter, with “Aria” now moved to the Strip and “Veer Towers” out back along Industrial Drive<\/strong>. The double-amputee on the south side represents\u00a0Morgans Hotel Group<\/strong>‘s abortive, two-hotel participation in Echelon<\/strong> (a Mondrian<\/strong> and a Delano<\/strong>) and a sixth hotel tower (let’s call it “Mandarin Oriental”) stands where General Growth Properties<\/strong>‘ retail mall would have been.<\/p>\n

Ominously, the area earmarked for a theater and flyloft has been, in the Steelman version, steam-ironed into low-rise, back-of-house space. So there’s going to be some discreet dis-assembly Echelon taking place, to say nothing of adding the giant, turtle-shell pavilion that will fill in the center of the metaresort. (Is Gammera<\/strong> coming for a visit?) The “aerial” views don’t include many of the faux<\/em>-Oriental doodads that are going to accessorize the hotel exteriors and which make them look not a little bit like Sands Cotai Central<\/strong>, come to think of it …<\/p>\n

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However, if the Genting and Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> projects must acknowledge common parentage, the proud papa would not be Murren but … the late Ralph Engelstad<\/strong>. Yes, retro-Vegas fans, Imperial Palace<\/strong> has risen from the grave — and bigger and wackier than ever, too!<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong><\/em>: An error in yesterday’s Echelon obituary has been corrected. J.P. Morgan<\/strong>‘s Joseph Greff<\/strong> valued the entire<\/em> 87 acres at $50 million — a truly dismal valuation for Strip land and one that pulls the whole damn floor out from under Carl Icahn<\/strong>‘s efforts to sell Fontainebleau<\/strong>. If Greff represents the thinking of the market at large, it’ll be a very long time before Icahn gets the price he wants ($15 million an acre or more) for that site, especially with half-finished F-blew sitting on top of it, slowly disintegrating. Also, a few extra links have been added to provide additional historical context. That “panda habitat” idea of Genting’s is so old that Mandalay Resort Group<\/strong> will still an active entity when it was first proposed. I love pandas but unless Genting has access to some black market, under-the-table sources for live pandas, I’ll believe it when and if I see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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