{"id":947,"date":"2008-02-14T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/2\/14\/That-other-Trop-letter"},"modified":"2022-09-06T07:33:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:33:05","slug":"that-other-trop-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/that-other-trop-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"That other Trop letter"},"content":{"rendered":"

S&G<\/i> has obtained a copy of the 15-page complaint letter from the National Environmental Health Association<\/b> to management of the Atlantic City Tropicana, alleging substandard conditions and service at the hotel-casino. Excerpts from this letter pretty much convicted the Tropicana and its owner, Columbia Sussex<\/b>, in the court of public opinion. Trop execs, for their part, deemed the NEHA “scammers.” Read it and decide for yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll confine myself to two observations. One is that the tone of the letter is remarkably conciliatory in view of what it alleges.<\/p>\n

Secondly, as much as the Trop takes a walloping herein, the NEHA complaint reflects just as badly — perhaps worse — on the work ethic and customer-service attitude of Trop employees, who include many members of Columbia Sussex detractor Unite HERE<\/b>.<\/p>\n

The Trop’s ownership has now paid the penalty for its mistakes. Those mistakes helped place the Trop at the forefront of Atlantic City properties that are currently experiencing a serious downturn. I said “helped.” Because Unite HERE clearly needs to take a look in the mirror and ask what part it played in this debacle.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere …<\/b> the legal wrangle between Park Cattle Co.<\/b> and Columbia Sussex<\/b>, who are suing each other up in Tahoe over the Horizon Lake Tahoe<\/a>, has made the newspapers as far away as Houston<\/a>. Based on the legal filings I’ve read, this Associated Press story encapsulates the entire conflict superbly in a mere six paragraphs.<\/p>\n

Columbia Sussex is apparently having trouble scaring up potential buyers for its Casino Aztar<\/i> riverboat, in Evansville, Ind. \u00a0There’s a slim ray of hope for Casino Aztar<\/i>, in the form of racino exec Jim Brown<\/b>, who knows the Ohio River market well.\u00a0Then again, to quote my favorite Babylon 5<\/a><\/i> line, “I’ve never known hope when it wasn’t on a diet.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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