{"id":409,"date":"2008-10-07T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/10\/7\/One-city-two-Plazas"},"modified":"2008-10-07T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T18:42:00","slug":"one-city-two-plazas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/one-city-two-plazas\/","title":{"rendered":"One city, two Plazas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"133\" src=\"\/userfiles\/Image\/plaza_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&apos;s game, set and match to <strong>El-Ad Properties<\/strong>, after a Clark County jury <a href=\"http:\/\/thestrippodcast.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/breaking-ny-plaza-wins-can-use-plaza.html\">ashcanned the remnants<\/a> of <strong>Tamares Group<\/strong>&apos;s attempt to block El-Ad from building <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com\/the-plaza.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">an oversized version of the New York Plaza<\/a> on the Strip. (Parts of Tamares&apos; case, including a claim for punitive damages, got tossed early on.)<\/p>\n<p>UNLV&apos;s <strong>David G. Schwartz<\/strong> is too modest to say so, but it sounds like his show-and-tell presentation on the varying identities of the downtown Plaza, <em>aka<\/em> Union Plaza, was what closed the case for El-Ad. As for Tamares, in pursuing this litigation it&apos;s probably lavished more upon lawyers, motions, exhibits, etc., than it&apos;s spent on any of its downtown casinos in four wasted years of ownership. And Tamares&apos; claim that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2008\/oct\/07\/ruling-plaza-cant-have-name-all-itself\">it was going to spend $100 million<\/a> on the former Union Plaza until those Tamares spoilsports came along has the fragrant aroma of bull manure.<\/p>\n<p>Tamares&apos; attorney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/business\/30556959.html\">tried to wring a few jurors&apos; hearts<\/a> by channeling the feelings of the downtown Plaza, keening that, &quot;I can&apos;t be known as the old Plaza, I can&apos;t be the cheap Plaza, I can&apos;t be the bad Plaza.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Guess what? You already are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It&apos;s game, set and match to El-Ad Properties, after a Clark County jury ashcanned the remnants of Tamares Group&apos;s attempt to block El-Ad from building an oversized version of the New York Plaza on the Strip. (Parts of Tamares&apos; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/one-city-two-plazas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"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=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}