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the basics Pick 'Em Get smart Power tweets Power Lunch The Numbers Sin City Media Overheard talking points Done Deal the numbers Chatter Read this! Moonlighting .com Buy high Sell low 28 VEGASINCmag Executive class Mike Smith is an award-winning editorial cartoonist featured daily in the Las Vegas Sun. Smith's work also is distributed nationally by King Features Syndicate. See archives of his work at lasvegassun.com/smithsworld. The Pitch is back American dream Smith's world We hear YOUR AD HERE NOW SERVING LAS VEGAS Vegas then ? ? ? ? ? ! The innovator VEGASinc2021 95 Gate keeper Number of counts the Gaming Control Board filed against $ Bally Technologies. Bally was accused of failing to register its employees with the state in a timely manner and agreed to pay a $125,000 fine. FortuneCookie Grilled The Survivor 11 The number of years Lloyd Gardley, who pleaded guilty in a $15 million mortgage fraud scheme last month, was sentenced to serve in prison. $4.5 million The price tag of land purchased by owners of Summerlin Hospital Medical Center. The deal has some questioning whether the hospital is planning an expansion. 46th Nevada's national ranking based on the number of general and family practitioners in the state. $995 The starting price for a family member to send a loved one's ashes into space through Houston-based company Celestis. $185,000 The median sales price of previously owned single-family homes in Southern Nevada in December. It was a 24 percent improvement from December 2012. 51st Nevada's rank in the 2014 Quality Counts report in terms of students' "chance for success." The state has maintained the ranking five years in a row. 288 The number of rooms included in plans for Tower 228 Boutique Hotel, a high-rise hotel proposed downtown. $2.5 billion shutterstock.com The expected economic benefit if Nevada succeeds in building a commercial drone industry. The state received a federal drone test designation recently, but that's just the first step, according to Nevada officials. | 20 JANUARY 2014 20140120_VI19_F.indd 19 | Reader comments We want to hear from you. Visit vegasinc.com to post your opinion. On Joe Schoenmann's Jan. 8 vegasinc.com story about plans to build the eight-screen Eclipse Theater, which would include bar service and a restaurant, in downtown Las Vegas ("Joe Downtown: With influx of residents, can a downtown theater thrive?"): Eight screens seems too ambitious. A theater with 3-4 screens and bar service like Alamo Drafthouse in Texas would be perfect. And who thinks 48 parking spaces for a 500-plus seat theater makes any sense? — drugdoc99 On Joe Schoenmann's Jan. 8 vegasinc.com story about the effort to bring a 288-room boutique hotel to downtown Las Vegas ("Joe Downtown: Developer planning boutique hotel downtown"): It will never happen. The problem in Las Vegas is that all the casinos downtown sell rooms so cheap because the competition is fierce, and subsidize them with casino revenue. With no casino to subsidize cheap room rates, it's unlikely they could command room rates high enough to make this project pencil out. In Seattle, Boston, Portland, Chicago or Washington, D.C., where you can get $200-$300 per night for a room, this type of project would be more viable. — vinnyvegas On Conor Shine's Jan. 9 vegasinc.com story about MGM Resorts International's plans for an arena on the Strip and the possibility of traffic congestion or parking issues ("MGM Resorts clears first hurdle on path to building arena on the Strip"): Adequate parking at MGM-owned hotels south of Tropicana? Have you ever tried to park at Mandalay Bay, Luxor or Excalibur on a weekend, even when nothing special is going on? It can be done but it isn't easy. But when there's a concert at Mandalay, it's next to impossible. So Borgel is saying there won't be any other special events at other MGM properties when the new arena has one? Kinda doubt it. Won't even go into the traffic issues since there's a pending development agreement with the county, but I'd wager that it'll be an absolute nightmare. Visualize the Thomas & Mack Center, when there's 18,500 people in attendance, and double — or more — that headache. — AmLowLife If the Monte Carlo and/or New York-New York hotels plan to be imploded in the next 10-30 years, I wonder what might happen to the arena? I guess it will be imploded or remodeled. Anyway, nice to see the Strip back in motion! — Cyrus Hojjaty Glad to see it. Five thousand construction jobs for two years, then 3,000 jobs running the place. More great things coming to Vegas. — Lee Yarbrough 19 1/16/14 1:47:01 PM

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