Hi Alan ... Mr. Thomas (banker of Wynn) of Thomas & Mack .... talked and financed Steve into buying the parking lot the Landmark Hotel (Hughes) ... was leasing ... the previous owner of the unfinished Landmark Pete Carrol ... kept title to the parking area on the west side .... Steve Wynn traded (Bob Maheu) ... Howard Hughes the Landmark parking land for the small strip of land next to Caesars .... and so the story goes ... takes care Alex ...