{"id":4344,"date":"2010-08-12T13:31:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T21:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2019-03-01T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:23:41","slug":"12-best-things-about-the-station-bankruptcy-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/12-best-things-about-the-station-bankruptcy-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"12 best things about the Station bankruptcy auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

1.<\/strong> Don’t have to keep “OpCo,” “PropCo” and “LandCo” straight anymore.<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> No casinos placed in receivership or shut down.<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> No more having to spell-check whether it’s Judge “Greg” or “Gregg” Zive. (It’s the latter, in case you were wondering.)<\/p>\n

\"\"4.<\/strong> Nobody has to rebrand Texas Station<\/strong> and Santa Fe Station<\/strong> “Texas Town” and “Santa Fe Coast” or whatever.<\/p>\n

5.<\/strong> A windfall for an army of law firms ($18 million in billings and counting<\/a>). It’s good to see somebody<\/em> prospering in this economy.<\/p>\n

6.<\/strong> No need to fret about the anti-trust implications of Boyd Gaming<\/strong> taking on 11 additional locals casinos.<\/p>\n

7.<\/strong> Ditto the consequences for Boyd of having that much greater exposure to a weak locals market, plus …<\/p>\n

8.<\/strong> … we can all get back to talking about when Echelon<\/strong> will resume. Or not.<\/p>\n

9.<\/strong> Life is much too short to be spent deciphering bankruptcy-court filings.<\/p>\n

10.<\/strong> We can focus instead on how Colony Capital<\/strong> CEO Tom Barrack<\/strong>‘s East<\/em> Coast casinos are doing (i.e., not well<\/a>).<\/p>\n

11.<\/strong> There’s still a chance that we’ll see Neverland Ranch<\/strong> transplanted by Colony to Tropicana Ave., where Wild Wild West<\/strong> currently sits. Imagine the publicity, the tourism, the tax revenue, the overall mishegas<\/em> …<\/p>\n

12.<\/strong> It’s over, thank God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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