[Bender13]

Sorry to interrupt the Trump love/hate fest. But I saw this in todays Sun. The Tommy Rockers tower is dead.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/st...566625944.html

Today: January 18, 2007 at 7:8:35 PST

John Katsilometes on what might be the next phase of Tommy Rocker's Cantina (Hint: Think topless)


Tommy Rocker's high hopes for a condominium tower are all but dead, and the guitar-playing restaurateur is eyeing topless dancers.

These are related developments.

A year ago Rocker (real name: Thomas Greenough) unveiled plans for a 46-story, 252-unit condo tower near the southwest corner of Dean Martin Drive and Flamingo Road, which since 1995 has been the site of his locally famous Tommy Rocker's Cantina. The high rise was to cost $150 million, and Rocker had investigated various design innovations for the project (including an automated "robotic parking" structure), which was to be finished by 2008. But as a result of the local market's increasing labor and material costs, Rocker has shelved his lofty plans.

"Fortunately I didn't have much money invested in the project," Rocker said Tuesday night during a fundraiser at his club for the Professional Drivers Association of Las Vegas cabdrivers.

Instead, Rocker has been dropping in on topless joints ("just for research and development," he qualifies) and is seriously considering turning his business into an adult club. He holds a license for a topless business on his current property and says he could have the club turned into just that in about nine months.

Rocker estimates he would make 10 times the profit at a topless club than he would as manager of the cantina, which is essentially a bar that serves food and offers video poker as Rocker performs classic rock songs for festive patrons (many of them tipsy Parrotheads).

Rocker noted that adult clubs, like casinos, are exempt from the recently passed smoking ordinance banning smoking in any establishment that serves food. He is already mulling over what he would call the place - it would no longer be a "Tommy Rocker's," but he might borrow from the club's address on Dean Martin Drive: 4275.