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The Plaza gets to be the Plaza

October 6, 2008 |  4:29 pm
The other jury verdict is in. Plans to build a larger-than-life replica of New York's Plaza hotel got a boost from the verdict in a lawsuit today. The Elad Group, which spent more than a billion to buy the New Frontier and then imploded the property to reclaim the land for the Plaza vision, won from the jury the right to use the name Plaza, despite objections from downtown's Plaza casino.

So do we start calling the empty parcel of Strip where once the New Frontier stood the Plaza?
Winning the name is one thing, but there is still no time frame for building this proposed resort. That is still going to require money, an estimated $5 billion, and the announcement for the financing on that has yet to be made.

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Thanks for going back to Vegas news instead of the OJ fluff that was available from countless other sources.

OJ was Vegas news, Bobak, considering it was happening here and the biggest story in town.

My question is why the Elad Group is so cheap that they won't hire an architect to come up with a new design idea for their resort, instead of recycling tired old stone and brick cliches.



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