{"id":701,"date":"2009-03-05T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/3\/5\/Scant-love-for-Boyd-big-love-for-M"},"modified":"2022-08-16T03:15:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T11:15:09","slug":"scant-love-for-boyd-big-love-for-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/scant-love-for-boyd-big-love-for-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Scant love for Boyd, big love for M"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess Fitch Ratings<\/strong> doesn’t have the stomach for Boyd Gaming<\/strong>‘s attempt to take over Station Casinos<\/strong> either. It’s downgraded Boyd,<\/a> whose bonds sank “further into junk status.”<\/p>\n

Locals love M Resort<\/strong>, it would appear. The Anthony Marnell III<\/strong> property has been open less than a week and is already hiring an additional 250 staffers — after being swamped by early busness<\/a>. Instead of the projected 5,000 covers per day, M’s restaurants have been doing closer to 10,000. Also, the number of sign-up stations for the players club will be increased to 20, the casino having realized 80% of its goal of having 25,000 enrollments in March. (This may explain why furniture was being removed from parts of the main floor.)<\/p>\n

Another 100 slots will be added and there will be more sightings of the gambler’s best friend: the ATM machine. Obviously, some of the “honeymoon” hubbub will wear off once the curiosity factor has subsided (which is what happened to Red Rock Resort<\/strong>). But good news is at a premium these days, so we shan’t look this gift horse too closely in the mouth. That surely goes double over at MGM Mirage<\/strong>, whose minority stake in M looks more and more like one of that company’s savviest investments — not to mention likely to yield the most bang for the buck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess Fitch Ratings doesn’t have the stomach for Boyd Gaming‘s attempt to take over Station Casinos either. It’s downgraded Boyd, whose bonds sank “further into junk status.” Locals love M Resort, it would appear. The Anthony Marnell III property … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,63,11,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701"}],"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=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31558,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/31558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}