{"id":5675,"date":"2011-01-26T14:42:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T22:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5675"},"modified":"2011-01-26T14:43:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T22:43:13","slug":"this-just-in-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/this-just-in-4\/","title":{"rendered":"This just in …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"An Illinois<\/strong> court of appeals has struck down a pair of Public Acts pertaining to the state’s gambling industry. One nullifies a deal that would have farmed out the state lottery to Scientific Games<\/strong> (luckily, SGMS stock withstood the bad news). The other ixnays a statewide expansion of video poker, a pet project of Gov. Pat Quinn<\/strong> (D, above<\/em>) but one that went over like a lead balloon at the local level.<\/p>\n

Wells Fargo<\/strong> analyst Carlo Santarelli<\/strong> says that International Game Technology<\/strong> will feel the “most punitive” effect of this ruling — which could yet be overturned by a higher court. Of course, if you own a casino in Illinois it was a very good day indeed, one in which the judicial branch deflected a dagger thrust from the legislature, which seems hellbent on killing the Land of Lincoln’s gaming business through mindless overexpansion.<\/p>\n

\"\"Salty assessment<\/strong>. Looks like Standard & Poor’s<\/strong> wasn’t the only S&P<\/a> to voice a negative rating on CityCenter<\/strong> this week. Pedestrians continue to vote with their feet<\/a> as well, as the plebiscite isn’t going well for the $8.5 billion metaresort. How much more tinkering around the edges has to take place before MGM Resorts International<\/strong> concedes that it went all in on a fundamentally flawed design concept?<\/p>\n

Notice how CityCenter boss Bobby Baldwin<\/strong> continues to pin the resort’s fortunes on the performance of neighbor Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas<\/strong>? Wasn’t it supposed to work the other way around? Local historian and preservationist Brian Paco Alvarez<\/strong> has one of the better ‘fixits’ I’ve heard: Move canoe sculpture Big Edge<\/em> from the Vdara<\/strong> plaza and put it in front of Aria<\/strong>, presumably in the space currently occupied that pissant fountain that looks so miniscule amidst its grandiose surroundings. As much as I love the skyscraper canyons of New York City<\/strong> and Chicago<\/strong>, the attempted “urbanism” of CityCenter doesn’t seem to know what it’s attempting to imitate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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