{"id":11052,"date":"2013-06-27T16:19:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T00:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=11052"},"modified":"2024-02-14T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T23:28:00","slug":"case-bets-crystals-baltimore-mohegan-sun-macao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/case-bets-crystals-baltimore-mohegan-sun-macao\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Bets: Crystals, Baltimore, Mohegan Sun, Macao"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Somebody’s finally found a good use for Crystals<\/strong>: as a museum. Daniel Liebeskind<\/strong>‘s design of the property would be more conducive to viewing art than to shopping and it never has trouble drawing lookie-lous. (Customers, eh, not so much.) Somebody at MGM Resorts International<\/strong> must have been thinking along the same lines for the high-end mall is playing host to a pair of James Turrell<\/strong> installations. One is on the monorail platform. The other occupies an empty, upper floor of the Louis Vuitton<\/strong> store. Akhob<\/em>, as it is called, can only be viewed by appointment but it sounds though it would be worth the trouble.<\/p>\n

As art critic Kevin McGarry<\/strong> rhapsodizes of the Las Vegas Strip<\/strong>, “a neon playground awash in a sea of nothingness, the extreme juxtaposition of barren beauty and unchecked consumerism affords [Turrell’s] destabilizing projects maximum impact on over-stimulated tourists<\/em>.” Uh … if you say so, Kev. In any event, CityCenter<\/strong> is to be applauded for thinking way outside the box.<\/p>\n

Cleared for table action<\/strong>. A planned 100 table games can be added<\/a> to Horseshoe Baltimore<\/strong>. Already, Rock Gaming Caesars<\/strong> had downsized its planned slot inventory by 1,250 games. Since slots are taxed at a higher rate than tables in tax-happy Maryland, what Caesars Entertainment<\/strong> is doing makes plain old common sense.<\/p>\n

\"\"Hmmmm … <\/strong>So a big-ass retail mall, with movie theaters and bowling lanes, is to be built on the Mohegan Sun<\/strong> campus. The stated reason is to stave off new competition from Foxwoods Casino Resort<\/strong>, in what has been described as a “defensive” move<\/a>. But both Mohegan Sun and its proposed Massachusetts<\/strong> casino would draw from the Hartford<\/strong> market, so you have to wonder how much of the elaborate dog-and-pony show up in Palmer<\/strong> is sincere, especially when CEO Mitchell Etess<\/strong> (above<\/em>) talks about giving people “a reason to drive a little further” … to Uncasville<\/strong>, not Palmer.<\/p>\n

\"\"Kay konfusion kontinues<\/strong>. There’s one<\/em> executive at Las Vegas Sands whose job is secure: Sands China<\/strong> CEO Edward Tracy<\/strong>, who received a contract extension two months before his current employment agreement with Sands would have elapsed. This speaks well of Tracy’s value but casts further questions over the still-fresh resignation of LVS’ CFO, Kenneth Kay<\/strong>. To renew one high-profile contract the same week that ties with another prominent executive are being severed certainly feeds the perception of unease within the House of Adelson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somebody’s finally found a good use for Crystals: as a museum. Daniel Liebeskind‘s design of the property would be more conducive to viewing art than to shopping and it never has trouble drawing lookie-lous. (Customers, eh, not so much.) Somebody … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,56,28,4,7,62,72,112,11,12,31,9,19,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052"}],"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=11052"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33044,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11052\/revisions\/33044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}