{"id":393,"date":"2009-02-02T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/2\/2\/Sign-of-the-times-II"},"modified":"2021-11-04T05:16:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T13:16:16","slug":"sign-of-the-times-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/sign-of-the-times-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign of the times II"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This image, taken Saturday at the Plaza Hotel & Casino<\/strong> downtown, pretty much speaks for itself. Auction holders Real Estate Disposition Corp. were scheduled to hold another auction today. The choice of the down-on-her-luck Plaza as venue is apt … although if the REDC had a sense of black humor, it’d hold its foreclosure auction at the in-Chapter 11 Tropicana Las Vegas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Photo: \u00a9 Erik Kabik<\/a>\/RETNA<\/em><\/p>\n

The best thing that could happen<\/strong> to the Plaza would be if this Forest City<\/strong> casino project went through, just behind the Plaza<\/a> on a portion of Oscar Goodman<\/strong>‘s famous 66 acres. The potential foot-traffic benefits are obvious and brand-new competition downtown might finally force owner Tamares Group<\/strong> to get off its duff and reinvest in the Plaza — assuming it hasn’t flipped its misguided real estate play and fled town by then.<\/p>\n

Another Benny Binion descendant<\/strong> dies<\/a> before his biblical allotment of three score and 10 years has run its course.<\/p>\n

It’s a trend!<\/strong> The prime minister of China is the latest shoe-throwing victim<\/a>. If this continues to catch on, it could really liven up shareholder meetings — especially those of Las Vegas Sands<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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