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Originally Posted by lfc4life
the great thing about this credit crunch is that most hotels on the strip are now safe for at least the next 15 years i would think. boyd made a terrible error knocking stardust, flamingo i can now see celebrating its 80th, 90th birthday now 
2 years ago i was totally opposed to vegas building 5 star resort after 5 star resort, the town and more importantly the strip needs its imperial palaces, harrahs, stardusts etc. you build 2 or 3 places like city center then what is unique about each of those massive resorts?? every resort no matter how tacky that was built in the 1990s were unique
there are plenty of places to build a resort on the strip without having to knock treasures like flamingo e.g lot across from sahara hotel, wet and wild site, across from luxor/mandalay bay and not to forget the frontier site or the echelon site (both of these projects are dead imo) |
Not only do I agree with you, I think the strip needs more tacky resorts, the themed Vegas is the best part of Vegas if you ask me. Here’s is a quick story of my flight into Vegas last Thursday, it's kind of on the same subject:
I was in the second to last row of the plane, behind me and on both sides of the isle there was a group of six young twenty-something “kids”, as we turned to land they were looking out of the windows, pointing and identifying or at least trying to identify the casinos. Other than the MGM, and Mirage they could identify just the themed casinos. Had MGM not been that tacky green color of it’s Emerald City past, it would not have been mentioned, as one of the girls said she knew the name of the “blue colored one”, but could not remember it. Besides the themed casinos, there was little talk of the others until one of them seen the HOTEL, and then the new Westgate PH sign. IMHO, it was the tacky colors of the new PH tower and the tacky spelling of the HOTEL that made them stand out. Love it or hate it, Vegas is more identifiable now than ever before because of the tacky icons, I hope to see more. And since I’m on the subject of bad changes, the energy efficient Vegas is lame, forget pleasing the rest of the world, wrap CityCenter in ten miles of neon and flashing lights, then donate the LEED certification to the Neon museum.
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at all. I would be upset if the Flamingo was demolished because of the history there (Vegas can't abandon EVERY piece of history in the city), and, with Caesars across the street, CityCenter now down the block, and the Venetian-Palazzo complex next door, I feel like there would be far too much MEGA-complexes there, you know? I feel like if Harrah's, IP & Bally's were redeveloped, they would best be reorganized into new smaller developments that are far more cohesive and less tacky, maybe some more residential buildings or boutique hotels. That area would be scary if everything was that HUGE.
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