{"id":2867,"date":"2013-10-20T02:10:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T09:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2013-10-20T20:06:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T03:06:04","slug":"wtf-just-happened-gansevoort-las-vegas-is-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wtf-just-happened-gansevoort-las-vegas-is-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF Just Happened: Gansevoort Las Vegas is No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>In a weird turn of events (understatement of the year), Caesars Entertainment has suddenly dropped its relationship with Gansevoort, a hotel group out of New York City.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-10-19\/caesars-drops-gansevoort-deal-after-massachusetts-gaming-probe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg.com<\/a>, the former Bill&rsquo;s Gamblin&rsquo; Hall &amp; Saloon on the Las Vegas Strip will no longer re-open as the Gansevoort Las Vegas boutique hotel, as was announced several months ago.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2868\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gansevoort_1003131.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-2868  \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Caesars Entertainment has been forced to change direction mid-renovation. What now?\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gansevoort_1003131.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caesars Entertainment has been forced to change direction mid-renovation. What now?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This abrupt course reversal comes after questions were raised about Gansevoort by gaming regulators in Massachusetts. Caesars Entertainment was interested in a casino project in Boston, at Suffolk Downs, but that potential partnership has now fallen through, and the Boston inquiry lead to the issues raised in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, regulators didn&rsquo;t like the looks of one of Gansevoort&rsquo;s investors, Arik Kislin, who allegedly has ties to Russian organized crime. Because if there&rsquo;s one thing Las Vegas is known for, it&rsquo;s an aversion to ties to organized crime. Ahem.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2869\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gansevoort_101413_15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-2869 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"This is where the giant Gansevoort sign isn't going.\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gansevoort_101413_15.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is where the giant Gansevoort sign isn&rsquo;t going.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This startling news raises more questions than it answers.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming the $185 million renovation of Bill&rsquo;s continues (it will), will Caesars Entertainment seek out a new hotel partner, or go it alone on the project? Will this put a kink in the renovation schedule? How will severing ties with Gansevoort affect things like the room designs and other hotel amenities in the works?<\/p>\n<p>How will losing the Gansevoort name impact other partnerships like the one with celebrity chef Giada de Laurentiis whose new restaurant, Giada&rsquo;s, was to be a centerpiece of the new hotel? (Answer: It won&rsquo;t.)<\/p>\n<p>Will it impact deals already struck with people like Victor Drai, who was overseeing development of the hotel&rsquo;s beach club, nightclub and after hours club? (Again, unlikely.)<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, the Las Vegas Strip will no longer be getting the second worst hotel name, ever. (We&rsquo;re looking at you, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/the-rumor-that-wouldnt-die-the-quad-to-be-renamed-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Quad<\/a>.) Bullet, meet dodged.<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ll keep an eye on further developments, but wow, that one came out of nowhere!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a weird turn of events (understatement of the year), Caesars Entertainment has suddenly dropped its relationship with Gansevoort, a hotel group out of New York City. According to Bloomberg.com, the former Bill&rsquo;s Gamblin&rsquo; Hall &amp; Saloon on the Las Vegas Strip will no longer re-open as the Gansevoort Las Vegas boutique hotel, as was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegas","category-lasvegashotels","category-las-vegas-wtf"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WTF Just Happened: Gansevoort Las Vegas is No More | Vital Vegas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a weird turn of events (understatement of the year), Caesars Entertainment has suddenly dropped its relationship with Gansevoort, a hotel group out of\" 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