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AlchemisTO
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Ah Ha! Ha! This doozy'll keep James Howard Kunstler enraged for months!
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samsonyuen
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Looks pretty cool, and in Vegas, it doesn't look out of place. I wonder what the ratio of residences to hotel rooms will be. I can't think of what was there before this. Huge plot of land there...
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spmarshall
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Surprise, surprise, the land is, and has been surface parking for years (at least since 2002, when I was there) - tucked between Bellagio and Monte Carlo, which are both newer casinos and are in the rendering. Maybe at one time, one of the old Sands/Dunes era casinos was on some of the site, but I'd consider this major infill.
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Antiloop33rpm
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Ah Ha! Ha! This doozy'll keep James Howard Kunstler enraged for months!
Haha. Im actually going to guess with the increase in oil prices and winter on its way that this is likely to pass Kunstler over. However, if he were to comment on this and Vegas in general im sure something along the lines 'the asshole of american urbanism' would not be far from what would be written.
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spmarshall
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Oh yeah. I'd call it the asshole of American "urbanism" as well.
Gated communities everywhere (in less wealthy parts, the gates just mean a big concrete wall with one entry/exit), unsustainable green lawns (though some do have traditional desert scrub and interesting rock gardens), smog that's as bad as LA sometimes, as the city is enclosed on all four sides by mountains, and growing really, really quickly - the first or second fastest growing metropolitan area in the US and Canada. The downtown, apart from the old casinos and Fremont Street, is full of bailbondsmen, the huge county jail, the courthouses, pawn shops and law offices, and not much else. Like I said, I hated it, but also found it really interesting at the same time.
Gated communities everywhere (in less wealthy parts, the gates just mean a big concrete wall with one entry/exit), unsustainable green lawns (though some do have traditional desert scrub and interesting rock gardens), smog that's as bad as LA sometimes, as the city is enclosed on all four sides by mountains, and growing really, really quickly - the first or second fastest growing metropolitan area in the US and Canada. The downtown, apart from the old casinos and Fremont Street, is full of bailbondsmen, the huge county jail, the courthouses, pawn shops and law offices, and not much else. Like I said, I hated it, but also found it really interesting at the same time.