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Riviera Finally Might Be Under Starwood Capitals Control

| July 14, 2010 | 0 Comments

All the news out of Vegas in the past few days has been about the Riveria being put into bankruptcy, with Starwood Capital being one if the mortgage holders who pushed for the bankruptcy filing. My friends over at VegasChatter seem to think this could be the first Barry Sternlicht-ing of Vegas since the days [...]

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Echelon Place On Hold For At Least 3 Years

| October 28, 2009 | 0 Comments

Boyd Gaming announced that they will not be resuming construction on Echelon Place on the Vegas Strip for at least 3 to 5 years.

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Cosmopolitan Las Vegas’s “Secret” Website

| January 25, 2009 | 3 Comments

After receiving an email from a reader, I found a new website for the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas which should relieve any fears from deposit holders about the fate of the development.

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Cosmopolitan Las Vegas Facts

| January 10, 2009 | 0 Comments

Some hard facts on the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, including number of hotel rooms count, number of hotel/condo units and square footage

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MGM’s CityCenter’s Harmon Tower Getting Cut In Half

| January 9, 2009 | 0 Comments
MGM’s CityCenter’s Harmon Tower Getting Cut In Half

The Harmon Las Vegas, part of MGM’s CityCenter is only going to be 26 stories instead of 46 and the condo portion would be canceled – all because of contractor errors affecting the structural integrity if the building were to be built to full height.

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Cosmopolitan Las Vegas Is Rumored To Have 1,800 Units Under Contract

| January 3, 2009 | 18 Comments

I found a great deal of information about the further progress of the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas from a posting on GlobeSt.com. At the least the project is still well underway and people who have a deposit can be assured that they will not lose out.

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Who Is Phil Ruffin? (Hint: He’s The One Who Just Bought MGM’s Treasure Island)

| December 15, 2008 | 0 Comments

In a pretty surprising move, MGM Mirage sold their Treasure Island Casino Resorton the Las Vegas strip to Phil Ruffin today. The casino sold for almost $775 million, $500 million in cash and $275 million in secured notes in a transaction that is already fully financed and scheduled to close in the second quarter of [...]

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