{"id":1844,"date":"2010-01-08T16:19:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T00:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2010-01-08T16:19:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T00:19:13","slug":"its-a-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/its-a-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a miracle!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RivYou’re looking at a photo that was imbedded in a new Riviera<\/strong> press release and — praise be! — Fontainebleau<\/strong> has disappeared. Yes, vanished, gone as though it were never there: like it was all a bad dream. Yes, yes, that’s what it must have been … a dream.<\/p>\n

What’s that you say? It’s still there, more pockmarked by the day? [sigh<\/em>] Too true. Riv President William Westerman<\/strong> is no sorcerer, alas, although some of his employees can obviously work wonders with Photoshop. How we wish he could wave a wand and actually cause F-bleau to dry up and blow away in the desert winds. The megaresort that was to have been a lifeline to the Riviera, Sahara<\/strong> and Circus Circus<\/strong> is now but the carcass of a sinking ship, dragging the first two properties down in its deadly undertow.<\/p>\n

Still, you have to give Westerman credit for — even if by necessity — operating “in the now,” dealing for untold years with the economy as it actually exists. History will remember F-bleau overlords Jeffrey Soffer<\/strong> and Glenn Schaffer<\/strong> as being among those who operated in some mad, fantasy-fueled economy<\/a> that never existed except on over-optimistic spread sheets. Local luminaries say, by gosh, we sure have learned our lesson this time<\/a>. To those predicting a chastened future<\/a>, I would reply with the old adage that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce … or does Vegas have it the other way ’round?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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