{"id":22970,"date":"2018-11-26T07:11:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T15:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=22970"},"modified":"2019-03-05T09:06:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T17:06:14","slug":"skye-station-resort-fee-reprieve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/skye-station-resort-fee-reprieve\/","title":{"rendered":"Skye Station?; Resort fee reprieve"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to The Associated Press<\/strong>, locals giant Station Casinos<\/strong> has snapped up 40 acres in the fast-growing Skye Canyon<\/strong> suburb, in the northwest part of the Las Vegas Valley<\/strong>. Station got the dirt dirt-cheap: 40 gaming-zoned acres for $36 million. The AP speculated that this might be an attempt to cock-block competitors (Boyd Gaming<\/strong> wasn’t mentioned but couldn’t have been out of \"\"mind either), never mind develop on its own. To our mind, the question is where Skye Canyon falls in Station’s long queue of delayed or deferred projects, led by Durango Station<\/strong>. The company still hasn’t found a buyer, according to the story, for its Texas Lane<\/strong> property near South Point<\/strong>, site of an abandoned project. No word on the Castaways<\/strong> site or the similarly discarded Losee Road<\/strong> parcel. Whatever the case, Station’s land bank can keep the company in new development for at least a decade to come.<\/p>\n

You can decide how this squares with Scott Roeben<\/strong>‘s report that the brothers Feritta are looking to liquidate Station<\/a> in favor of buying an NFL<\/strong> team. (Why? Las Vegas<\/strong> is about to have one, albeit slightly used.) At least they’re not selling it to themselves because that didn’t work out so hot last time — except for the Fertittas. A modified version of the rumor has Station hanging onto its big-capex projects: Palace Station<\/strong> and the Palms<\/strong>. To our way of thinking, the Skye Canyon purchase indicates that Station is going to stick to its knitting but we’ve been wrong before.<\/p>\n

Roeben also reports that Jackie Robinson<\/strong>‘s All-Debt, er, All-Net Arena<\/strong> is on the verge of getting some overseas financing. While an arena without an anchor tenant seems like a cart-first horse-second proposition, construction activity on the North Strip would throw a lifeline to Alex Meruelo<\/strong> at SLS Las Vegas<\/strong>, bringing him a thirsty, next-door clientele while he figures out how to reposition SLS as a locals draw.<\/p>\n

\"\"* If you’re planning to check out the Yayoi Kusama<\/strong> installations at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art<\/strong>, here’s a primer on what to expect. Fortunately, the exhibit runs through April 28. Be sure to bring your sense of wonder.<\/p>\n

* It may be too little, too late but Vegas casinos are putting at least a temporary hold<\/a> on much-hated resort fees. The Fertittas are waiving resort fees at the Palms, as is The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas<\/strong> \"\"(rumored to be on Hard Rock International<\/strong>‘s Christmas wish list). Parking fees went over like a lead balloon and, should the no-resort-fee offers move the needle, we might actually see a reversal of this customer-hostile trend. Then they can move on to “ticket processing fees” and “convenience fees” that turn a $39 show ticket into a $55 proposition. Anything that changes “Las Vegas casino” from a synonym for “clip joint” is A Good Thing. Roeben has an ingenious (and hilarious<\/a>) suggestion for how the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority<\/strong> could spin the whole thing and it’s a campaign platform we heartily endorse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to The Associated Press, locals giant Station Casinos has snapped up 40 acres in the fast-growing Skye Canyon suburb, in the northwest part of the Las Vegas Valley. Station got the dirt dirt-cheap: 40 gaming-zoned acres for $36 million. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[235,60,66,4,245,159,234,74,57,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22970"}],"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=22970"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23650,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22970\/revisions\/23650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}