And plus, I really do think there is the overlay here of the attitude toward Nevada that you see - all the old stereotypes, the wild west, sin city of Las Vegas.
In terms of architecture and scale, arguably such a transition will be akin to the difference between setting up an isolated high desert mobile home park and building a space city with the dynamism of the Las Vegas strip.
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Among them: outfits like privately owned Young Electric Sign Co. (the oldest and largest producer of electric signs in Las Vegas) of Salt Lake City, Utah and Magink Display Technologies of Mevasseret Zion, Israel, whose boards made a splash at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Among them: outfits like privately owned Young Electric Sign Co. (the oldest and largest producer of electric signs in Las Vegas) of Salt Lake City, Utah and Magink Display Technologies (other-otc: DTEK.PK - news - people ) of Mevasseret Zion, Israel, whose boards made a splash at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
While the mature markets of Las Vegas and Atlantic City struggle for revenue growth (AC is actually 40% below its 2007 peak), Macau continues to grow revenues at an astronomical rate, fueled by newfound Chinese and Asian wealth.
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The industry has been on a tear ever since it outstripped Las Vegas as the City of Sin and May proved to be another lucky month, marking a fourth revenue record this year while setting the stage for further gains in June.
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When President Kennedy was here, he called Henderson a "city of destiny" because he saw its potential as Las Vegas grew.
In the popular US gambling destination of Atlantic City, New Jersey state law prevents casinos from barring card counters, while in the state of Nevada, home to the quintessential gaming city Las Vegas, no such law exists, so they can ask card counters to stop playing, or in extreme cases, ban them.
Literally: he is moving Zappos to the old City Hall in Las Vegas (about a half-mile north of the Strip).
And Taubman will help develop 500, 000 square feet of retail space at MGM Mirage's City Center casino on the Las Vegas Strip, slated to open in 2009.
Las Vegas was the No. 3 city with a population of more than 1 million in terms of growth over the last decade, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
After all, one of the joys of online gambling is that you do not have to go to Atlantic City or Las Vegas to play.
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, is fast becoming an unlikely godfather to Las Vegas, the city I live in.
Inspired by the work of pioneering urban economist Edward Glaeser, author of Triumph of the City (Penguin), Hsieh has become intensely interested and invested in downtown Las Vegas.
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"This is a city of 1.8 million adding 80, 000 new residents a year, " says Related Las Vegas President Martin Burger.
Many of the Asian high-rollers frequenting Macau used to go to Las Vegas or Atlantic City because there were no closer options.
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Furthermore, the NBA has not ruled out the possibility of hosting an All-Star Game in a non-NBA city, like it did in Las Vegas in 2007.
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Much like Las Vegas, this is a fully modernized version of the past (though Atlantic City is more like the area a few blocks off the Vegas Strip).
They include Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Salt Lake City, New Haven and San Antonio all of which could eventually find themselves in binds similar to LAX's, since most municipalities rely heavily on parking revenue to support their budgets.
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For more than a year, the owners of the Kings, the Maloof family, former owners of the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, have used the threat of a sale to outside investors to prod the city of Sacramento into putting together a new arena package.
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Ruiz said he now plans to move from Las Vegas to his hometown of Boston in order to open a boxing gym in the inner city.
He thinks that Blackpool should aim for the plushness of Las Vegas but develop the town on the lines of America's other gambling Mecca, Atlantic City.
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