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mac78130 · #**7481** Posted **Oct 20, 2009, 7:23 AM**

VegasHappensHere visited the PH Tower. The interior of the red fin still looks odd.

http://thestrippodcast.blogspot.com/...l-preview.html

mac78130 · #**7482** Posted **Oct 20, 2009, 3:39 PM**

Ouch.. that's a lot of money. It will be interesting to see if Kerkorian does indeed lower his stake in MGM/Mirage.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009...ge-citycenter/

justdefended · #**7483** Posted **Oct 20, 2009, 9:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by mac78130

VegasHappensHere visited the PH Tower. The interior of the red fin still looks odd.

http://thestrippodcast.blogspot.com/...l-preview.html

I don't understand the red fin design concept, particularly if it's not just the outside curtain but actually casts a deep red light everywhere inside.

A Whole Foods inside Crystals?? Man it's gonna be hard to stop eating at that place.

TonyAnderson · #**7484** Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 12:09 AM**

I was in Vegas this weekend and noticed a bunch of developments that appeared be going up, that weren't around City Center.

ScottG · #**7485** Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 3:04 AM**

Don't get me wrong o think cosmo is in the best location. And I thing it looks great at night. I dig the varying horizontal blue neon but during the day the thing is too dark and looks dirty. The front entrance looks broken, buT it could just be the lack of interior, activity, and lighting, I would definity choose to stay, and live in cosmo over city center tho, the thing has the best views, arguably, in the world on every side!

BrandonJXN · #**7486** Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 3:06 AM**

Ok Vegasites..question: If you had $10 Billion dollars to improve the city of Las Vegas, what would you do?

Krases · #**7487** Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 4:15 AM**

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Ok Vegasites..question: If you had $10 Billion dollars to improve the city of Las Vegas, what would you do?

Diversify like mad. Throw it at UNLV and let the brookings institution (those guys that developed the Marshal plan for rebuilding Germany after ww2) help develop more technology oriented jobs instead of tourism oriented jobs. I would also subsidize the nearly 2 gigawatts of solar power planned around the valley. That would bring in a lot of new green jobs.

hotdog · #**7488** Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 12:26 PM**

You only want to throw money towards things in which Las Vegas has an inherent advantage. So Krases's idea of helping fund solar research makes sense, but general funding of technology does not. And funding elderly-oriented health care research (such as the Lou Ruvo brain institute) makes sense because older people are more likely to want to be in a warm client.
If I had $10B, I'd consider buying the Fontainebleau shell and converting it to a hospital/medical office complex and see if groups like the Cleveland clinic (who have expressed interest in expanding to Las Vegas) would join on to magage operations.

CHAPINM1 · #**7489** Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 3:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Krases

Diversify like mad. Throw it at UNLV and let the brookings institution (those guys that developed the Marshal plan for rebuilding Germany after ww2) help develop more technology oriented jobs instead of tourism oriented jobs. I would also subsidize the nearly 2 gigawatts of solar power planned around the valley. That would bring in a lot of new green jobs.

I couldn't have said it better myself! However; I'd also put some of the money toward the development of Ivanpah Int'l as well.

Cozybop · #**7490** Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 6:51 PM**

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I couldn't have said it better myself! However; I'd also put some of the money toward the development of Ivanpah Int'l as well.

What about getting the monorail started to get to the airport?

CHAPINM1 · #**7491** Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 8:32 PM**

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What about getting the monorail started to get to the airport?

Oh yeah, totally forgot about that! I guess that should come first!

Cozybop · #**7492** Posted **Oct 21, 2009, 11:14 PM**

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Oh yeah, totally forgot about that! I guess that should come first!

I actually meant Mag-lev, that is much faster heh.

Krases · #**7493** Posted **Oct 22, 2009, 3:05 AM**

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I actually meant Mag-lev, that is much faster heh.

I think the Maglev would have a stop at Ivanpah along the way. Although all of that ten billion probably wouldn't even complete just the Maglev.

I think extending the monorail to McCarren would be the best that could be accomplished. Maybe even extending it to downtown would be possible.