SHOW REVIEW: Society of Seven with Lani Misalucha.

High Society: Hawaiian show band, Misalucha bring another fresh show to Strip.
By Mike Weatherford/Las Vegas Review Journal

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IP’s Pizza Palace Serves “Pizza Red,” Innovative Non-Traditional Wine.

“Pizza Red is the newest spirit to enrich the dining experience of our Pizza Palace patrons,” said Tom Viskovich, director of food and beverage. “It was specifically developed to match the variety of flavors found in pizza – so the only question is, ‘what toppings do you want?’”

Pure Aloha Fall Festival October 6 - 8
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From “The Circut”

A source from within Red Rock tells us of massive cuts in the ranks at the local Summerlin hotel and casino. In the last six weeks alone, four top ranking team member were exited including James LaFlamme, Corporate Vice President of Food & Beverage; Jeff DiVito, Corporate Vice President of Food & Beverage Development; Charlie Karagienakos, Corporate Director of Security; and Rick Clagett, Corporate Director of Surveillance. The property’s existing managers have been informed via memorandum that they are expected to cover these additional duties indefinitely. Additional cuts have included the cancellation of all go-go dancers in the lounges and bars and it is rumored that the DJs and bands are the next to go. With Lounge Manager Catherine Bingue-Hawkins leaving on an unrelated note to pursue her singing career, this does not bode well for the overall nightlife atmosphere of the casino which, according to our source, “is going towards becoming another Boulder Station.” Ouch.

Social House is already gathering a devoted following and it hasn’t even been open a full week yet! Pure Management Group’s new asian-fusion restaurant at TI opened to the public on Thursday, August 31st. Their industry promotion Late Night Social, which promises to continue catering to the discerning nightclub goers’ palate Tuesday through Saturday from 11 p.m. till 4 a.m. and beyond, hasn’t even officially started yet but is already keeping the crowd into the wee hours. DJ Javier Alba, most recently of Tabu Ultralounge, presides over the lounge from his little crows nest booth. Says one staff member, “If there are people there until 9 a.m., we’ll be open till 9 a.m.”

Following up on their recent multi-million dollar renovation, Rumjungle launches “Xotic” on Monday, September 18th, hosting Las Vegas’ most beautiful entertainers. All locals, industry workers, and tourists will be treated like VIP’s with sizzling drink specials, buy-one-get-one bottle service and hourly VIP bottle/table giveaways. All locals are free and groups of 10 or more sexy women receive a free bottle of liquor. KLUC’s Mr. B.O.B does a live remote with DJs OB-ONE and RTM spinning 80’s rock, mash-ups, R&B, and hip–hop. Check out the new balloon and light show!
http://www.thecircuitlv.com

Slot Reviews By Gayle Mitchell

And his grandparents will be as proud as they can be.
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VEGASRESOURCE.COM NEWSLETTER

LAS VEGAS OPENINGS COMING UP IN THE FUTURE.

Sep. ??= Greek restaurant Taverna Opa opening in the
Desert Passage Shopping Mall - Aladdin.
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Sep. ??= The acclaimed Mel Brooks theatrical
 production “The Producers” opening in -
 Paris Las Vegas.
++++++++++
Sep. ??= MGM Mirage starts CityCenter.Foundation work
 on the hotel started in May. MGM will begin
 taking condo sales reservations in September.
 Project CityCenter, a $7 billion, 66-acre
 complex of hotels, casinos, retail and
 residential space which is to be built by
 MGM Mirage on a site between the Monte
 Carlo and Bellagio on The Strip where the
 Boardwalk was located.
 The project is larger than New York’s Soho,
 Times Square and Rockefeller Center
 combined. At $7 billion, this most
 ambitious proposal expects to be the most
 expensive privately funded development ever
 undertaken in the U.S.
 Scheduled to open in 2009.
 $3.3 billion will be recouped through condo
 sales.
++++++++++
Oct.?? = Construction starts on Phase 3 of the World
 Market Center. It will be a 16-story,
 2.1 million-square-foot showroom along with an
 adjacent nine-story parking garage. Construction
 costs for that phase of the project are estimated
 at $500 million and will take 18 months to build.
 15% of this Phase is already rented!
++++++++++
Nov.?? = Aladdin becomes Planet Hollywood Casino &
 Hotel. Full information at:
 http://tinyurl.com/a7sdc
 and
 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05272/578777.stm
++++++++++
Dec. ??= MGM MIRAGE  is building  the
 RESIDENCES AT MGM GRAND.
 The project will have three Towers, each
 40-sioreys high and each Tower will have
 576 condominium units. The Towers are very
 creatively called:
 Tower A, Tower B and Tower C.
 The condominium units can be rented by the
 public under the MGM Mirage program called
 The Signature at MGM Grand.
 Tower A opened and hotel reservations are
 now being accepted from the public.
 Tower B will open in December, 2006.
 Tower C will open in May, 2007.
 The whole project is being built where the
 MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park was
 located, in the back of the MGM Grand.
 Turnberry & MGM Mirage are partners.
 Tel. 1-888-891-1688 or (702) 891-5555.
 Beautiful internet site is at:
 http://www.mgmgrandresidences.com
++++++++++
2006. CANNERY: Sometime in 2006, the Nevada Palace on
 Boulder Highway, just east of Sam’s Town, will be
 demolished for another Cannery Hotel & Casino.
++++++++++
2006. CAR RENTAL FACILITY: Sometime in 2006, the new
 $160 million consolidated car rental facility at McCarran
 Airport will open on Warms Springs Rd. between
 Gillespie St. and Haven St.
 Construction has started.
 Once opened, there will be only one bus to ALL the 11
 car rental agencies and not the present system where
 each company has its own bus. ALL the 11 car rental
 companies will be housed in one complex. It will take
 longer to get from the airport terminal to your car rental
 pick-up but hopefully the location to return your car will
 be better indicated than now.. Full story at:
 http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/May-07-Fri-2004/business/23821833.html

 The new car rental taxes will then be:
 Nevada sales tax for is 7.75 percent,
 a 10 percent concession recovery fee,
 a 6 percent government license surcharge and
 a 4 percent license recovery fee, plus
 a $3-per-day customer facility fee.
 WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sometime in late 2006 the Las Vegas Convention and
 Visitors Authority begins a  $1.4 billion
 expansion and renovation of the Las Vegas
 Convention Center.
 The facelift will add some 255,000 square-
 feet of meeting space, create 3,200 new
 parking spaces, install a police station and
 put in a concourse linking three buildings
 now joined by outdoor pathways.
 Construction completed by the end of 2010.
++++++++++
Sometime in late 2006, Station Casinos will start to
 build Aliante Station Casino in the master
 planned community of the same name in
 North Las Vegas at I-215 and Aliante
 Parkway.
 The property will have 2,000 slot machines
 and 200 hotel rooms, cost up to
 $450 million and open in 2008.
++++++++++
2007
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Jan. ??, 2007= Phase II of Red Rock Station
 will open.
++++++++++
Feb. 18, 2007= NBA Basketball All-Star Game in
 Las Vegas at the Thomas & Mack Center.
+++++++++
Feb.,2007????= Klondike Hotel & Casino closes
 6/30/07. Present plans call for 25 stories,
 1,200 hotel & condo units with 90,000 sq.ft.
 casino. Construction could start Feb., 2007.
++++++++++
Sometime in early 2007, the Lady Luck, which closed
 February 12, 2006, will reopen after major
 renovations have been completed.
++++++++++
Sometime in 2007, Wynn Las Vegas is opening Eric
 Idle’s (of Monty Python fame) sold-out
 Broadway musical spoof of the King Arthur
 tale “Spamalot”  in a specially designed
 $70 million building called Spamalot
 Experience and Grail Theater to house the
 Tony Award winning production.
++++++++++
Sometime in 2007, the new HOOVER DAM bypass
 and bridge opens. Major visible construction
 has started and with security vehicle check
 points, there are some lengthy delays.
 Internet site is at:
 http://www.hooverdambypass.org/
++++++++++
Sometime in 2007, Harmon Avenue extension opens that
 would link the street with Frank Sinatra Drive
 and the Strip.
++++++++++
Mar.??, 2007= LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY
 completes $27 million of upgrades to their
 facility including a new fan interactive area
 and Nextel Cup garage in the speedway’s
 infield. This new area will allow race fans
 to look directly into the garages from
 both a raised level and ground level as the
 teams prepare their cars to race.
 The Speedway is also increasing the
 banking and moving the pit road closer to
 the grandstands. A new media center also
 will be part of the project. Removal of
 existing asphalt has begun. More info. at:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-nascar12mar12,1,3818312.story?coll=la-headlines-sports&ctrack=1&cset=true
++++++++++
Mar.??, 2007 the VENETIAN will open
 their third tower called “Palazzo Resort
 Hotel Casino”  on the south-east corner
 of The Strip and Spring Mountain where
 the now demolished Tam O’Shanter
 Motel was located.
 The 53-stories tower will have 3,025 suites,
 cost $1.6 billion, with casino (1,900 slot
 machines and 80 table games), meeting
 space, shopping mall (with Barneys of
 New York), restaurants, underground
 parking and 1,500-seat theater.
 There will be a 60-foot glass domed entry
 lobby with a two-story fountain.
 When completed, it will be part of the largest
 hotel complex in the world with over
  7,000 hotel rooms.
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Mar.??, 2007= “WYNN LAS VEGAS will open the
 90-minute play “Monty Python’s Spamalot,”
 in The Grail Theater which was where the
 ill-fated  Avenue Q played.
++++++++++
May??, 2007= MGM MIRAGE  is building  the
 RESIDENCES AT MGM GRAND.
 The project will have three Towers, each
 40-storeys high and each Tower will have
 576 condominium units. The Towers are very
 creatively called:
 Tower A, Tower B and Tower C.
 The condominium units can be rented by the
 public under the MGM Mirage program called
 The Signature at MGM Grand.
 Tower A will open in May, 2006 and hotel
 reservations are now being accepted from the
 public.
 Tower B will open in December, 2006.
 Tower C will open in May, 2007.
 The whole project is being built where the
 MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park was
 located, in the back of the MGM Grand.
 Turnberry & MGM Mirage are partners..
 Tel. 1-888-891-1688 or (702) 891-5555.
 Beautiful internet site is at:
 http://www.mgmgrandresidences.com
++++++++++
Sometime in late 2007, the famous CROBAR Nightclub
 will open where the Rita Rudner theater was
 located - New York-New York.
++++++++++
2008
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Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino will open in early 2008.
 A $1.5 billion development, it will consist of
 two glass towers on an 8.5-acre site right
 on the Las Vegas Strip and will encompass
 over 4 million square feet
 Approximately 2,200 rooms comprised of
 condo hotel units and hotel rooms.
 Over 150,000 square feet of convention and
 meeting space. A 70,000 square foot casino.
 Over 300,000 square feet of retail,
 restaurant, and entertainment space.
 A 50,000 square foot fitness center and spa.
 400 feet of Strip frontage.
 A four-level parking garage.
 It is intended to have a four-star rating
 and will be built on Las Vegas Boulevard
 between the Bellagio and MGM Mirage’s
 announced 66-acre, master-planned
 urban complex, Project CityCenter.
 Two hotel condo towers.
 One hotel will be the Grand Hyatt Las Vegas
 at The Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino. is
 projected to open in mid-2008. 
 Hyatt will operate the property’s 3,000 hotel
 rooms, suites and condo-hotel units. Info.::
 http://www.hyatt.com/hyatt/about/press/pr-show.jsp?id=1200622
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Apr.??, 2008 = Openiung oif Phase 3 of the World
 Market Center. It will be a 16-story,
 2.1 million-square-foot showroom along with an
 adjacent nine-story parking garage. Construction
 costs for this Phase of the project are estimated
 at $500 million. 15% of this Phase is already rented!
++++++++++
Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas will
open in the first quarter of 2008. Condominium units in
the 64-story tower are in the  price range from $600,000
to $6 million. The project features 1,282 condominium
hotel units ranging from studios to multiple room suites.
++++++++++Sometime in 2008 construction will start on The Smith Center
for Performing Arts on a vacant 61-acre former railroad yard
west of downtown. The center is expected to cost up to $150
million, with an endowment of $50 million or more for expenses.
State, county and city governments have approved a car-rental
tax to pay almost half the estimated cost.
++++++++++
Sometime at the end of 2008 the second tower of  2,054 suites,
costing over $1.74 billion and named ENCORE AT WYNN LAS
VEGAS will open. Fully integrated with Wynn Las Vegas but
with additional casino, additional food & beverage and more
retail.
Demolition of the remaining towers of the old Desert Inn
has been completed to make way for this second tower.
Information on the second tower at:
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/May-28-Fri-2004/business/23980705.html
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2009
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Sometime in early 2009 Boyd Properties will open Northcoast
 Hotel & Casino at the intersection of Interstate 15
 and Las Vegas Boulevard. No further details are
 available.
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Sometime in 2009: Mandarin hotel group will manage
 a new 400-room luxury hotel in the
 multi-billion dollar City Center Project.
 The first phase of this project is expected
 to open in 2009. It will be built between
 the Bellagio and Monte Carlo along with
 the City Center Project.
 The 37-story building will have an entrance
 on Las Vegas Boulevard and will feature
 multiple glass enclosed sky bridges that
 will connect the hotel to rest of the property,
 and will feature a glass facade.
 The hotel will have it all — restaurants, shops, a
 cake shop, lounges, and a spa.
 Some of Mandarin Oriental’s other property
 locations include Bermuda, Paris, London,
 Hong Kong, San Francisco, Washington, D.C.
 — and the list goes on.
++++++++++
Sometime in 2009 Starwood will open a $1.7-billion “W” hotel and
condominium project down the street from the Hard Rock, at the
intersection of Harmon Avenue and Koval Lane, which will
include 3,000 hotel and condominium units, a
75,000-square-foot casino, meeting space, bars and
restaurants. It will be called the W Las Vegas Hotel, Casino
& Residences.
The project will include The $1.7 billion project will include 3,000
residential and hotel units, a 75,000-sq.-ft. casino, 10 dining and
nightlife outlets, retail stores and 300,000-sq.-ft. of meeting space,
with the world-class amenity of an attached W Hotel and Casino.
Owners will have full use of the property’s facilities and amenities,
as well as access to maid service, 24-hour room service and
concierge services. Units will go on sale to the public in early 2006.
Fred Segal, the Los Angeles fashion landmark that has attracted the
fashionable and famous for decades, announced plans to open a store
in the W Las Vegas Hotel, Casino & Residences when it opens.
Information at:
http://ddimagazine.com/displayanddesignideas/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054956&imw=Y&imw=Y
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Sometime in 2009: Noted architect Paul Steelman has been
hired to design Montreux, the resort that will rise after
the NEW FRONTIER is imploded at the end of 2006.
Montreux, given a Swiss mountain theme,
will cost $1.9 billion, sport 2,750 rooms priced around
$200 a night and include a big shopping mall and
dining and entertainment amenities. It will open in 2009.
+++++++++++
Sometime in late 2009, opening the first phase of Project
  CityCenter, a $7 billion, 66-acre complex of
  hotels, casinos, retail and residential space
  which is to be built by MGM Mirage on
  a site between the Monte Carlo and Bellagio
  hotels on The Strip where the Boardwalk was
  located. The project is larger than New York’s
  Soho, Times Square and Rockefeller Center
  combined.
++++++++++
2010
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Sometime in early 2010, the $4 billion, multi-use Echelon Place
  will open, where the Stardust is now located.
  The project will have 5,300 hotel rooms in four
  hotels (Echelon Resort, Shangri-La Hotel and
  Morgans Hotel will open Delano and Mondrian,
  one million square feet of convention and
  meeting space, 350,000 square feet of joint
  ventured retail space, several entertainment
  venues including a 4,000-seat theater-stadium,
  25 restaurants and bars. plus the centerpiece
  140,000-square-foot casino.
  The Stardust will stay open through 2006.
++++++++++
Sometime by the end of 2010 the Las Vegas Convention and
  Visitors Authority completes a  $1.4 billion
  expansion and renovation of the Las Vegas
  Convention Center. The facelift will add some
  255,000 square-feet of meeting space, create
  3,200 new parking spaces, install a police
  station and put in a concourse linking three
  buildings now joined by outdoor pathways.
++++++++++

LAS VEGAS CLOSINGS COMING UP IN THE FUTURE

Oct.28= Hawaiian Luau closing at the Imperial Palace.
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Oct.31= Clint Holmes contract ends. Will his
  contract be extended? - Harrah’s.
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Nov. 1 = GOOD BYE STARDUST. Sometime in early 2007
  the Stardust will close to make way
  for the $4 billion multi-use
  development named Echelon Place.
  There were more characters in the
  Stardust Sportsbook than anywhere
  else in Las Vegas! I’ll miss it. Go to
  the Stardust Sportsbook before it
  closes.
  Information and history:
  http://www.lvbusinesspress.com/articles/2006/01/19/columnists/col02.txt
AFTER THE STARDUST, IMPLOSION RUMORS
HAVE the New Frontier, Riviera and the Tropicana
going down, but no definite announcements yet.
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Nov.??= NEVADA voters may vote on two November
  referendums to restrict indoor
  smoking, the Las Vegas Review-Journal
  said. One would ban smoking in hotel
  rooms, restaurants, bars and other
  public places. The other would only ban
  smoking in bars and restaurants where
  children are allowed. Neither would ban
  smoking on casino floors.
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Dec.??= Noted architect Paul Steelman has been hired
  to design Montreux, the resort that
  will rise after the NEW FRONTIER is
  imploded at the end of 2006.
  Montreux, given a Swiss mountain theme,
  will cost $1.9 billion, sport
  2,750 rooms priced around $200 a night
  and include a big shopping mall and
  dining and entertainment amenities.
  It will open in 2009.
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2007= Sometime in early-2007 Caesars Palace headliner
  Celine Dion is closing her show as she
  is planning for a second child at the end
  of her Las Vegas run.
  Dion, whose 4-year deal expires in early 2007,
  told Tele 7 Jours, a French entertainment
  magazine, “I’m approaching 40 years old,
  and I have to tend to that.”
  Her son, Rene-Charles, was born in
  January 2001 after in vitro fertilization.
  The frozen embryo of her second child
  awaits in storage at a New York clinic.
  CHER IS RUMORED TO REPLACE HER.
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2007= Sometime in mid-2007 Imperial Palace will close
  and will be demolished. Harrah’s will then
  be connected to the Flamingo.

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Lenny’s Las Vegas
By Len Butcher

As for the growth of Cirque in Las Vegas, reliable chatter is that there are preliminary plans for nine Cirque productions on the Strip by the end of the decade, including the new Luxor show, the Elvis-themed production at MGM Mirage’s Project CityCenter, a production to replace “Mamma Mia!” once it plays out at Mandalay Bay, and show No. 9 at an unspecified hotel — possibly a children’s show at Excalibur to counter the adult-themed “Zumanity.”
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/do/2006/jul/06/566646656.html
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Michael Holly In “Folies Bergere”

“Folies Bergere” is performed nightly (except Sundays) at 7:30 p.m. (covered) and 10:00 p.m. (topless) on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday and at 8:30 p.m. (topless) on Tuesday and Friday. Tickets are $59.00 (plus tax and surcharge) for table seating and $69.00 for booth seating (plus tax and surcharge).  They can be purchased through the Tropicana Box Office by calling 702-739-2411 or log on to the website at www.tropicanalv.com.

Vegoose lineup gets wild.

Acts from The Killers to Fiona Apple set for five-day music fest.
By Jason Bracelin/Las Vegas Review Journal

Innovative, inviting and unique - that’s a maximum Vegas experience.  That’s MGM Grand.

Vegas Values Report for 9/3/06