Dream Las Vegas Resort & Debacle<\/a>.<\/p>\nOur local news is a lot like The Onion, but without the satire.<\/p>\n
Other projects announced but not happening include the A’s ballpark ($1 billion-plus short of funding), Bally’s resort on the Tropicana site (infinity dollars short of funding), The King David Hotel, anything on the Riviera site (65SLVB and Fontainebleau high roller accommodations), LVXP, Las Vegas Spaceport, Z Athlete Village, Majestic Las Vegas, Bleutech Park, the list goes on and on.<\/p>\n
The Atari Hotel might be dead, but long live the dreamers of dreams.<\/p>\n
Local media can’t survive on stealing scoop from social media alone! Don’t get us started.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The plug has officially been pulled on the Atari Hotel, a project we told you was never happening. Why is this news? Because our local journalists in Las Vegas can’t dig up real stories, so to fill column inches they confirm stories and “break” previously reported stories like they’re new. It’s fun and cheap and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegas","category-lasvegashotels","category-las-vegas-wtf"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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