(C) Tamares Group
has retained the Navegante Group, a casino-development company, to
manage its Plaza, Las Vegas Club, Gold Spike and Western hotels.
Together, the hotels have about 2,000 employees and 1,600 rooms..
Navegante will operate the casinos through an entity called PLAYLV
Gaming Operations LLC. From
Las Vegas Review-Journal.
(D) Lady Luck closed February 12th, 2006 for an extensive
year-long remodel by the new owners, Downtown Resorts LLC. Lady Luck does not currently have an active
website.
(E) Changes are coming to the north end of the Las Vegas Strip.
The Stardust, one of the first star hotels and casinos that opened in the 1950’s will shut down to make way for a new
$4 billion 5,300 room development: Echelon Place. In March of 2007
the 63 acres will be cleared and construction on Echelon
Place will begin. When the Stardust will closes in 2007
all of the employees will be spread over the other 19
properties owned by Boyd Gaming. From manhattaniZation Las Vegas.
(F) Currently under construction is the
Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino costing $2 billion and will have 3,000 rooms.
Also being built is the Palazzo at the Venetian costing $1.8 billion
having 3,025 rooms. Encore at Wynn Las Vegas, across Sands Avenue, is going up costing $1.7 billion with 2,054 rooms.
The big one, MGM Mirage's Project City Center
will have 7,000 rooms and cost $7 billion.
Information from Question of the Day by Anthony Curtis' Las Vegas Advisor.
(G) OpBiz, LLC - A privately held joint partnership of Planet Hollywood International, Inc., Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. and Bay Harbour Management, LLC
(H) Hooter's was originally opened in 1974 as a 322-room Howard Johnson
Hotel. New names followed: Paradise (1973-1974), 20th Century
(1977-1978), Treasury
(1984-1989), and San Remo (1989-2006).
(I) Planet Hollywood was previously known as Tally-Ho (1963-1965), King's Crown (1965-1966), Aladdin (1966-1998),
and New Aladdin (2000-2006).
Good links to other lists: (Turn off your pop-up blocker as links open
in new windows)
Sources used in compiling this list are varied. They include (but are by no means limited to)
UNLV, Andrew Hudson, Anthony Curtis' Las Vegas Advisor,
Applied Analysis Newsroom, Sharks in the Desert by John L Smith, the Las Vegas
Review-Journal, manhattaniZation Las Vegas,
Viva Las Vegas: After Hours Architecture by Alan Hess, Casino Design: Resorts, Hotels, and Themed Entertainment Spaces by Justin Henderson, and
Clark County
Assessor's Office. My apologies to those not credited.
mikey@lasvegasmikey.com
