{"id":856,"date":"2009-02-23T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/2\/23\/Earth-to-Colony-Capital"},"modified":"2009-02-23T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T01:38:00","slug":"earth-to-colony-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/earth-to-colony-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth to Colony Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&quot;If I had a crystal ball two years ago, I would never have taken on that debt. Never, ever. But looking back, we saw growth. That&apos;s why we put up that beautiful new tower, with a plan to do extensive renovations [on the older hotel tower] next door. We&apos;re not able to do that now.&quot;<\/em> &#8212; <strong>Resorts Atlantic City<\/strong> CEO <strong>Nicholas Ribis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Growth? Two years ago? Would somebody please <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/ap\/090222\/casino_woes_atlantic_city.html?.v=4\">buy Nick Ribis<\/a> that crystal ball? By early &apos;07, casinos in <strong>Pennsylvania<\/strong> were a done deal. How could anyone have foreseen growth for <strong>Atlantic City<\/strong> in that scenario?<\/p>\n<p>Just asking &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;If I had a crystal ball two years ago, I would never have taken on that debt. Never, ever. But looking back, we saw growth. That&apos;s why we put up that beautiful new tower, with a plan to do extensive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/earth-to-colony-capital\/\">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":[23,3,14,95],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856"}],"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=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}