Echelon Place Delays Construction Of $5 Billion Las Vegas Project

It was announced this week that Boyd Gaming would suspend work on the huge Echelon Place project on the Las Vegas strip for at least a year. In case you haven’t seen it it’s the massive construction project going up where the legendary Stardust used to be. It’s really not a big surprise, seeing how […]

Hooters Buyout Is a No-Go

As I had previously reported here the Hooters hotel was going to be bought out & turned into a boutique hotel. Well, you can scratch those plans.  According to the LVRJ.com, the prospective new owners missed a scheduled payment and Hooters terminated the deal. They said that they’s still consider some kind of similar deal if […]

Another Vegas Megaproject Folds

Word came down this week that the Crown Las Vegas project was kaput. It was supposed to be built on the former Wet & wild land next to the Sahara at the north end of the strip. Citing a soft financial market, the owners scrapped the 5 billion dollar project and have put the land […]

Trump Tower opens in Las Vegas

The Trump Tower opened this week here in Las Vegas. It’s the Donald’s first venture into the Vegas valley. He’s been quite successful in Atlantic City and has wanted to be in Vegas for a long time.
Unlike his East Coast properties his tower here is only condos. There’s no casino on site. It’s a concept […]