#PacificWatch: #VegasReport: Pieces of the Tropicana for sale. @JCBliss
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🗓️ 3 August 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch. He's also |
| 0:05.8 | Vegas report. We go right to Las Vegas because there is a baseball team showing up in |
| 0:12.3 | several years and they're going to build a |
| 0:14.4 | stadium right where a very famous hotel stands right now. What is to be done? |
| 0:20.0 | Jeff, a very good evening to you. The Tropicana, what is the date and what's going to happen? Good evening. |
| 0:27.0 | Good evening, John. In early October, they're expecting to implode what remains of the Tropicana. I'm sure it'll be a spectacular evening |
| 0:35.9 | explosion probably used in a TV show or a film in the upcoming in the future |
| 0:40.1 | like they have for other hotels were destroyed famously in the Martin Sportshazy film Casino. |
| 0:47.0 | And this will be a big deal, but right now they're still stealing off old parts of the hotel |
| 0:52.0 | while they demolish a lot of the infrastructure and |
| 0:55.6 | the landscaping and such around the buildings. |
| 0:58.5 | So we're looking at a new $1.5 billion stadium. It'll be about 33,000 people somewhere in |
| 1:06.3 | in 2028. And that will be the Oakland Aise who are moving from Oakland Stadium |
| 1:10.9 | there, Oakland Alameda Coliseum over to Sacramento for a couple of years, |
| 1:15.0 | and then moving down to Vegas. |
| 1:17.2 | I believe it was the Yankee Stadium, |
| 1:19.2 | or maybe it was a Met Stadium, when they changed from the old one to the new one. They sold the seats off. Are they going to do that with the Tropicana? |
| 1:27.0 | They are doing that with the Tropicana with their theater. They sold off artwork, the old front doors. You know, there's quite a market |
| 1:36.5 | for these types of things, not only among the everyday Joe's who just like to have an old ashtray |
| 1:40.9 | or a painting from one of the rooms perhaps they stayed in. |
| 1:45.0 | But people who repurpose them for their homes or for offices, there's quite a market for these things. |
| 1:50.6 | So they'll try to squeeze as much money as they can out of the |
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