#PacificWatch: #VegasReport: Farewell to the Tropicana and Mirage -- Greetings to MLB and Hard Rock Hotel. @JCBliss
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🗓️ 27 July 2024
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https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/tropicana-landowner-confident-in-ballys-as-development-projects-3102754/
1940 LAS VEGAS
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| 0:00.0 | This is a specific watch. |
| 0:05.0 | This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor. |
| 0:09.0 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:11.0 | Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch. |
| 0:14.7 | And Vegas Report, and we begin with Las Vegas because |
| 0:18.6 | there's positive ahead in this sparkling town always new. |
| 0:23.0 | Jeff, Tropicana, Sianoa, Mirage, Sianoa. |
| 0:28.0 | I've seen article after article sentimental about. |
| 0:31.0 | That was then. What is now, Jeff? What's coming in the place of these |
| 0:35.2 | well-known casinos? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. There's a lot of |
| 0:39.7 | sentiments, especially about |
| 0:44.0 | the Tropic Canada because it goes back to the early days and of course all the things that people talked about with you know the gangsters and all the you know the 60s and 70s when there were still a lot of glitter and Hollywood show business there. |
| 0:55.3 | But that has been torn down or is in the process of its final tear down. |
| 1:00.2 | And that will be replaced by the baseball stadium that's going to be constructed for the Oakland A's. We'll be moving there in a few years. I believe they'll be, they're expected to check in around 2028 if there are any problems. |
| 1:12.6 | They'll move to Sacramento for a couple years, |
| 1:15.2 | playing a minor league baseball stadium there, |
| 1:17.6 | and then move to Las Vegas for the specially built stadium, |
| 1:21.4 | especially built for them. |
| 1:22.6 | And it will have all the new bells and whistles that a lot of these high-tech |
| 1:26.5 | stadiums and arenas do these days. |
| 1:29.5 | And so you have that coming in. |
| 1:31.0 | And then you have the Mirage, which a lot of people came to know especially in |
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