{"id":14704,"date":"2014-10-06T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T19:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=14704"},"modified":"2021-08-26T04:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T12:22:45","slug":"most-happy-fella-grumbling-on-the-boardwalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/most-happy-fella-grumbling-on-the-boardwalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Most happy fella; Grumbling on the Boardwalk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> was laying covetous eyes<\/a> upon the Meadowlands<\/strong> last week — and reiterating his risible drivel\u00a0about the \"MarkJuliano\"<\/a>mystical power of brick-and-mortar casinos to deter problem gambling — for the time being Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> is upping its bet on Sands Bethlehem<\/strong>. While, by Vegas standards, doubling your room inventory to 600 and increasing your meeting space to handle 500 people doesn’t sound like much, it’s big news back east. There will also be a non-Mario Batali<\/strong> Italian restaurant and one of the Emeril Lagasse<\/strong> restaurants will be swapped out in favor of another, more Cajun-focused.<\/p>\n

Sands Bethlehem President Mark Juliano<\/strong>, the man charged with overseeing all this, is the subject of an engaging profile<\/a> … albeit one which questions whether his anti-loitering program is so much noise. (The propensity of Asian-American players to sell their free-play cards and then either hang out around the casino or its\u00a0neighborhood was the subject of unflattering New York Times<\/em> attention earlier this year.) “No one has trouble selling their cards. If they’ve made a policy change, I haven’t seen it. Security still looks the other way,” says player David Kravitz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In any event, for a man who traded away Marina Bay Sands<\/strong> to run Sands Bethlehem instead, Juliano sounds like a very happy camper.<\/p>\n

* Atlantic City<\/strong> Mayor Don Guardian<\/strong> put the best spin he could<\/a> on the bargain sub-basement sale of Revel<\/strong> to Brookfield Asset Management<\/strong> for $110 million.\u00a0\u201cThese are the first people that realized what I\u2019ve been saying about Atlantic City turning the corner and being a great investment \"Revel_0947\"<\/a>due to the low prices,\u201d he announced. Crabby runner-up Glenn Straub<\/strong>, however, intends to raise a stink at tomorrow’s bankruptcy court hearing. Or he might try to top Brookfield’s offer.<\/p>\n

At the moment, however, he seems more interesting in airing a laundry list of accusations. To wit, “that Revel improperly accepted a bid from Brookfield after a specified deadline, that Revel’s attorneys reneged on an agreement to share information with him on competing bids, and that six hours of closed-door meetings on what was supposed to be the first day of bidding was improper.” Brookfield, for its part, looks a lot less formidable when you consider that lenders could soon foreclose upon its Hard Rock Hotel & Casino<\/strong> in Las Vegas<\/strong>, although Brookfield assures the media that its troubles in Sin City\u00a0will not impinge on its Boardwalk investment.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, Trump Taj Mahal<\/strong>‘s attempt to welsh on its collective bargaining agreement got drop-kicked out of bankruptcy court.\u00a0“The court does not have authority to reject a portion of a CBA,” Judge Kevin Gross<\/strong> told the litigants. Trump Entertainment Resorts<\/strong> finds itself stuck behind union local Unite-Here<\/strong>, which rejects any concessions, and Carl Icahn<\/strong>, who won’t bail out the Taj without concessions. What are the odds it lasts past mid-November?<\/p>\n

* Is SLS Las Vegas<\/strong> struggling? In an effort to court the locals player it’s offering up to $100 in rebates on losses<\/a>, now through Halloween, provided that you’re a member of the players club. It’s a one-time offer but applies to all games in the SLS casino. Where things get a little dicey is SLS’ extension of the offer to the “greater Las Vegas area,” fuzzy language that could provoke a lot of hair-splitting. The rebate is loaded onto your players’ cards, in shades of a “rebate” program that went over like a lead balloon. Players looking for value probably aren’t going to get all hot and bothered for this promo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although Sheldon Adelson was laying covetous eyes upon the Meadowlands last week — and reiterating his risible drivel\u00a0about the mystical power of brick-and-mortar casinos to deter problem gambling — for the time being Las Vegas Sands is upping its bet … 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":[23,82,18,185,149,53,95,90,157,162,12,108,9,169],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14704"}],"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=14704"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29999,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14704\/revisions\/29999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}