LAS VEGAS | Boom Project Rundown! 2.0 - Page 178

rhassoii · #**3541** Posted **Dec 29, 2007, 1:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by kenratboy

I will flat out say that Trump looks very good in Las Vegas, and it does complement Wynn/Encore.

Just think how nice it could look if it wasn't gold like so many others.

Doesn't Trump know Platinum is more precious than Gold

Article about the inside of trump:
http://www.lvrj.com/real_estate/12910867.html

Vegas Grows Up · #**3542** Posted **Dec 30, 2007, 12:11 AM**

I talked with the reporter and told her about the mistake. They are now going to release a correction about the deposit requirement. Regardless, it has been already popping up all over the national press today so the harm is done.

http://localism.com/article/320052/T...ns-why-the-Las My response to false reporting and how we can better protect the Strip from it.

mdiederi · #**3543** Posted **Dec 30, 2007, 12:58 AM**

I went to the Venetian today and went over to the entrance where it connects to the Palazzo and the guard told me that the Palazzo will open on Sunday at 6 p.m.

mttbox · #**3544** Posted **Dec 30, 2007, 1:35 AM**

can any one get the "inside" picture of trump?

neworleans · #**3545** Posted **Dec 30, 2007, 6:44 AM**

i read the newspaper everyday and almost half of all the articles i read have very little truth to them. here is an article from the mohave journal last october on the hoover dam bypass. (mohave county is just south of las vegas in arizona).
it states that the bridge will be finished by the end of this yr.... wait, that's in 2 days.

the bridge isn't scheduled for completion until 2010. SEE THE DIFFERENCE? where the hell did the article get it's information from!!!

http://whitehillsgroup.com/files/200710_EDJ.pdf

kenratboy · #**3546** Posted **Dec 30, 2007, 7:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by neworleans

i read the newspaper everyday and almost half of all the articles i read have very little truth to them. here is an article from the mohave journal last october on the hoover dam bypass. (mohave county is just south of las vegas in arizona).
it states that the bridge will be finished by the end of this yr.... wait, that's in 2 days.

the bridge isn't scheduled for completion until 2010. SEE THE DIFFERENCE? where the hell did the article get it's information from!!!

http://whitehillsgroup.com/files/200710_EDJ.pdf

I think the issue is when you have a writer who does not care/learn about what they are reporting on. For example, read a car article in a good car magazine, and its great. Read the same thing written by a 'general' journalist and it is usually painful and useless. Exact same thing with what this forum deals with - its complex (or not!) and needs to be understood to be reported on well.

rhassoii · #**3547** Posted **Dec 30, 2007, 8:23 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by kenratboy

I think the issue is when you have a writer who does not care/learn about what they are reporting on. For example, read a car article in a good car magazine, and its great. Read the same thing written by a 'general' journalist and it is usually painful and useless. Exact same thing with what this forum deals with - its complex (or not!) and needs to be understood to be reported on well.

Good analogy. I find it frustrating that this is what someone does for a living, yet they can't manage to do it competently.

mdiederi · #**3548** Posted **Dec 30, 2007, 9:51 AM**

Perhaps they got that info because originally the Colorado River Bridge was supposed to be completed around 2008. But the September 2006 collapse of the cableway highline crane system across the canyon has delayed it two years. They just got the new highline operational in the last week or so. That article also says the bridge is 60% complete. No way is it 60% complete, they haven't even started the 1,000+ foot wide arch yet, which will involve building an elaborate temporary cablestay suspension system. I started a thread about the bridge on SSC.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...=363201&page=7

mdiederi · #**3549** Posted **Dec 30, 2007, 5:11 PM**

I just heard on TV 3 that the Palazzo will open at 7 p.m. tonight.

neworleans · #**3550** Posted **Dec 30, 2007, 5:17 PM**

in the actual article i read in the newspaper on the hoover dam bypass, it talked about the cranes collapsing, and yet it still said it would be finished this year. whatever the case, it won't be finished until 2010, which actually turns out to be good. arizona got funding to go ahead and widen the US 93 from a 2 lane road to a divided highway all the way through the mountains on the arizona side. It is scheduled to be completed at the same time as the bypass, this way it will all open together. for those who don't know, the hoover dam bypass only called for widening the road about a mile and a half on both sides of the bridge.
now all we have to do is bypass boulder city so it will be a straight shot, w/ not stopping, from arizona to vegas...

mdiederi · #**3551** Posted **Dec 30, 2007, 6:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by neworleans

arizona got funding to go ahead and widen the US 93 from a 2 lane road to a divided highway all the way through the mountains on the arizona side.

Oh that's good news, I hadn't heard about that, but it definitely needs to be widened there. There's always someone driving their RV 30 miles an hour through that section with 50 cars backed up behind them.

case_architect · #**3552** Posted **Dec 30, 2007, 11:25 PM**

had a few minutes before work so i shot a couple quick pics. also, palazzo is having trouble getting the health inspector in for approval on the casino bars. might not get in before new years. sounds fishy to me. maybe wynn is throwing in some money to delay the opening past the busy weekend?

encore getting close

encore casino

echelon foundation

echelon cranes everywhere now

palazzo

wynn is betta...no palazzo is betta

m resort starting to move along

trump porte cochere

thought this had a cool effect

mdiederi · #**3553** Posted **Dec 31, 2007, 5:05 AM**

Good construction photo compilation! Thanks.

Palazzo is open now.

I walked through about an hour ago. Well, just the casino is open. I entered from the Venetian passage. There's a big dome there and a water fall and the ceiling rises several floors above what will be shopping in January. Then it opens to the casino and there are big artificial skylights over the widest aisles. Stylistically, there's nothing really wildly over the top or unique, but it feels elegantly comfortable, though the yellow carpet made me a little nauseous after awhile. Out by the front desk is another large dome with a large acrylic Lalique style sculpture of nymphs the base of which drops through an opening in the floor down to the next level. Numerous nice fronts to closed restaurants. There was a bar open that had zebra patterns on the pillars. Maybe the cafe was open, forgot to check that.

latennisguy · #**3554** Posted **Dec 31, 2007, 5:27 AM**

i just got back from Vegas. Here's the view from the hotel room:

sorry about the quality. the windows where very dirty at the Monte Carlo

mdiederi · #**3555** Posted **Dec 31, 2007, 7:10 AM**

Inside the P

Zorak · #**3556** Posted **Dec 31, 2007, 7:37 AM**

Hi all,

I've been lurking for awhile and figured I would post something. I assumed the Frontier would be imploded but I guess not. It's slowly being demolished by heavy equipment. This is from 12/28:

Hans Gruber · #**3557** Posted **Dec 31, 2007, 1:21 PM**

Encore

lfc4life · #**3558** Posted **Dec 31, 2007, 4:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Zorak

Hi all,

I've been lurking for awhile and figured I would post something. I assumed the Frontier would be imploded but I guess not. It's slowly being demolished by heavy equipment

the main frontier high-rise tower was imploded in November, the low-rise rooms are being demolished alrite

pablosan · #**3559** Posted **Dec 31, 2007, 5:17 PM**

Wow, all of the construction happening in Las Vegas put me in awe. Some of these projects are massive.

BrianFey · #**3560** Posted **Jan 1, 2008, 3:41 PM**

Zorak, Nice shot from Wynn. I don't know why they didn't blow that tower, when they did the rest, but I guess they have their reasons.

Latennisguy - Great side shots of CC also, thank you. I assume that last shot is of the new CDS theater, for the Elvis show?