Here's a Las Vegas Weekly column that's three scoops in one! Yippee! Of course, if you listened to The Strip, you heard about all of this two weeks ago. Just saying. Enjoy! -sf
With Cosmo open,
welcome to the Era of the Next Little Thing
welcome to the Era of the Next Little Thing
By STEVE FRIESS
This is the guy who got the performing arts center and Cleveland Clinic to sprout from a toxic train yard, moved the notion of a mob museum from appalling to brilliant and, most recently, poached Zappos from Henderson to occupy a city hall that didn’t need replacing but will be replaced nonetheless.
Yes, sir. Tell me. What would be phenomenal?
“See, what I’d like to do when I’m not the mayor anymore and can invest out here, I’d love to buy this property over here and put in that ‘giant eye’ Ferris Wheel that they have in London over there,” he gushes, pointing at an empty lot on the east side of the road.
“You want a Ferris wheel Downtown?” I answer, disappointment disguised as deadpan.
“It’d be phenomenal.”
To which I resist the urge to retort: “What is the obsession Vegas has with building a fucking Ferris wheel?” Caesars Entertainment chief Gary Loveman hankers for one, too, near Flamingo Road, but Wall Street won’t give him the money. Several have been considered for parcels around the Strip through the years, but you know what attraction no Vegas tourist has ever told me he misses here? A fucking Ferris wheel.
Welcome to the Era of the Next Little Thing.
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3 comments:
Golly, you don't have to curse.
Phil Ruffin almost had one too for years for the redesign of the New Frontier.
Just read article too, not sure from reading the article whether the point about Starbucks was tongue in cheek, but there already is one on the strip, not in a casino. It's locate on the walkway between Harrahs and the Imperial Palace.
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