Category: resorts
Caesars Centurion Tower Changing to Nobu Hotel
Caesars Palace in Las Vegas announced today they are converting their old and unloved Centurion Tower into a boutique hotel called Nobu Hotel, based on the famous Nobu Restaurant that has a number of locations around the world. It’s going to be the first property from Nobu Hospitality (owned by Nobu Restaurant Group) with the [...]
Revel AC Apparently Revived – By NJ’s Governor Christie
Today’s NY Post has a story about NJ’s Governor Christie successfully persuading Morgan Stanley to give it another shot at funding the unfinished Revel project on the boardwalk in Atlantic City. Morgan Stanley — after failing to raise money for Revel last month — is launching a new $1.15 billion debt offering so Revel can [...]
Cosmopolitan Las Vegas – Finally Open!
The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas’s opening today is being written about, and broadcast on almost every major and minor news/blogging outlet in the world today (along the Bellagio’s robbery) – I’ll save my readers from the fluff of how great the property is and how many restaurants it has and the like, if you’re looking for [...]
Starwood Capital Does Something With the Former Baccarat Wailea Property
Back in 2008 Starwood Capital announced the property they had recently purchased, the Renaissance Wailea, would be torn down and replaced as a completely new resort – Baccarat Wailea Hotel & Residences. Unfortunately, like alot of construction projects announced during that time – the project never got off the ground and was eventually canceled. Not [...]
Wyndham Worldwide Licenses Planet Hollywood Name For Franchising
Today at Wyndham Worldwide’s first global brand conference, it was announced that Wyndham has licensed the Planet Hollywood name and likeness, enabling it to begin franchising hotels using the brand throughout the world.
Hard Rock Hotel or Planet Hollywood Finally Coming to Atlantic City?
In today’s New York Post was a quick story about how the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City is looking for a hotel partner to renovate and bring the property up to par with the competition. Supposedly the deal that Trump is looking for would swap the land under the property and the [...]
MGM-MIRAGE Changing Name to MGM Resorts International
This week at MGM Mirage’s June 15th shareholder meeting, MGM Mirage has asked their shareholders to:
To amend and restate the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company to change the name of the Company from “MGM MIRAGE” to “MGM Resorts International”
Disney World Finishing and Rebranding Unfinished Resort
The Orlando Sentential is reporting that Disney World Florida will be building their first new resort in 7 years (not a themepark – hotels) by finishing the unfinished Pop Century Resort Phase II, although the new resort will be renamed and redesigned into “Disney’s Art of Animation Resort”
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