CLOSED IN LAS VEGAS LAST MONTH (MARCH,2007):
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Mar. 1= BOTTOMS UP show close3d - Fitzgeralds.
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Mar. 1= Royal Star Chinese Restaurant closed. It was located on the casino level of the Venetian.
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Mar. 2= The Candelight Wedding Chapel, which has been located on Las Vegas Blvd across from
Circus Circus since it opened in 1966, was moved this morning beginning at 1 a.m. to it's new home.
The owner has donated it to the History Museum on South Boulder Hwy. in Henderson.
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Mar. 2= HYPNOSIS GONE WILD closed- Krave Nightclub.
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Mar. 3= Chinese New Year Display closed - Bellagio Botanical Gardens.
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Mar. 6= Wynn Las Vegas closed La Reve Theater for $8 million of major renovations. Will reopen April
5th.
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Mar. 6= The Wynn Las Vegas employee-parking garage (The old Desert Inn parking garage) was
imploded. The six-story garage imploded extended back from the Strip, just north of the new Encore
construction site at Wynn Las Vegas.
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Mar.13= The STARDUST was imploded.Details at:
http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6188154
(The next Las Vegas hotel to be imploded will be the Imperial Palace or the New Frontier.)
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LAS VEGAS CLOSINGS COMING UP IN THE FUTURE: 2007
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Apr. 1= FOREVER PLAID show closing-Gold Coast.
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Apr.18= Nevada Landing Hotel and Casino will be demolished to make way for a new hotel/casino with housing and commercial business. Located on Interstate 15, 25 miles south of Las Vegas, the Hotel has 302-rooms.(the Gold Strike, on the other side of Interstate 15, is not affected.
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May 5= Spring exhibit closes - Bellagio Botanical Gardens.
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May 5= Jean Philippe Pâtisserie in the Bellagio, closes its two hand-crafted sculptures of chocolate fish from an animated steamboat floating on a pond of sugar waves, complete with a working paddle.
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May 12= The Scintas show closes - Sahara.
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May 29= BODIES…THE EXHIBITION AND TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBIT will close - Tropicana.
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May 31= Union contracts expire with The Culinary Union, Local 226,who contracts for about
50,000 casino workers, who include hotel and restaurant service employees on the Strip and downtown.
They are hoping to avoid a strike as happened in Atlantic City in 2004.
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Sometime in 2007= The NEW FRONTIER is imploded.Noted architect Paul Steelman has been
hired to design Montreux, the resort that will rise to replace the NEW FRONTIER.Montreux, given a
Swiss mountain theme, will cost $1.9 billion, with 2,750 rooms and include a big shopping mall and
dining and entertainment amenities. It will open in 2009.
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Sometime in mid-2007 IMPERIAL PALACE will close and MAY be demolished. Harrah's will then
own the adjoining casinos of Harrah's, Imperial Palace, Flamingo and the Barbary Coast.
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Dec.15, 2007 Caesars Palace headliner CELINE DION is closing her show as she is planning
for a second child at the end of her 4-year Las Vegas run. Dion, told Tele 7 Jours, a French
entertainment magazine, "I'm approaching 40 years old, and I have to tend to that." Her son, Rene-
Charles, was born in January, 2001 after in vitro fertilization. The frozen embryo of her second child
awaits in storage at a New York clinic.CHER, MADONNA, Bette Midler, Rod Stewart, Billy Joel, Diana
Ross etc. are rumored to replace her.We've just learned that Bette Midler signed with Caesars last week
,although as yet no details of the deal have been released nor when her performances might commence.
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Sometime around the end 2007, the Amazing Jonathan show will close - Sahara.
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Sometime in the late summer of 2008, the MAMMA MIA show will close - Mandalay Bay.