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Echelon Place Las Vegas real estate mega resort by Boyd Gaming isn’t going to be home to a broadway musical. According to an executive for Boyd partner Anschutz Entertainment Group, the Strip and the Great White Way simply do not meet.

“We’re not fans of the Broadway phase,” said John Meglen, co-CEO of AEG Live Tours & Special Events. “I’ve never believed that people come to Las Vegas to see Broadway. They go to New York for a broadway musical. That was proven in Las Vegas with the family shows. People don’t come to Vegas for family entertainment. They go to Orlando or Orange County,” Meglen said. (more…)

Calendar of Conventions in Las Vegas

Las Vegas Convention Schedule For Sept 4 - Sept 10 2006

Convention, Location, Start Date, End Date, Attendees

• IN-SINK-ERATOR
• BELLAGIO 09/06/2006 09/11/2006 17
• NATIONAL STROKE ASSOCIATION
• JW MARRIOTT LAS VEGAS 09/06/2006 09/11/2006 250
• INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CHILD SAFETY
• EMBASSY SUITES CONVENTION CENTER 09/07/2006 09/12/2006 75
• COMPUTERS UNLIMITED
• ALADDIN RESORT & CASINO 09/08/2006 09/13/2006 125
• HUGHES SUPPLY INC.
• GREEN VALLEY RANCH RESORT & SPA 09/08/2006 09/14/2006 10
• NEUROSOMATIC EDUCATORS LLC
• PALACE STATION HOTEL-CASINO 09/08/2006 09/13/2006 30
• KEY WHOLESALERS GROUP ASSOCIATION
• RIO ALL-SUITE CASINO RESORT 09/09/2006 09/12/2006 110
• NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EXCHANGORS
• GOLDEN NUGGET 09/09/2006 09/13/2006 160
• 1ST RADIO RELAY SQUADRON
• HOOTERS CASINO HOTEL 09/10/2006 09/12/2006 80
• ACI WORLDWIDE
• ALEXIS PARK RESORT AND SPA 09/10/2006 09/13/2006 250
• ALL BABY AND CHILD, INC./ABC KIDS EXPO
• LAS VEGAS CONVENTION CENTER 09/10/2006 09/13/2006 8000
• AMERICAN LIGHTING ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
• WYNN LAS VEGAS 09/10/2006 09/12/2006 600
• AMERICAN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL
• HARRAHS LAS VEGAS HOTEL AND CASINO 09/10/2006 09/14/2006 25
• AMERICAN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL
• CAESARS PALACE 09/10/2006 09/13/2006 25
• ELECTRONIC RETAILING ASSOCIATION
• MIRAGE, THE 09/10/2006 09/12/2006 2700
• LIBERTY TAX
• EMBASSY SUITES AIRPORT 09/10/2006 09/18/2006 100
• PEDIATRIC AND ADULT INTERVENTIONAL THERAPIES FOR CONGENITAL AND VALVULAR HEART DISEASE - PICS 2006
• BELLAGIO 09/10/2006 09/13/2006 1000
• TECHLEARN 2006
• MANDALAY BAY CONVENTION CENTER 09/10/2006 09/13/2006 4000
• TRIMEGA PURCHASING ASSOCIATION
• CAESARS PALACE LAS VEGAS 09/10/2006 09/16/2006 600
• U. S. SUBMARINE VETERANS OF WWII
• RAMADA EXPRESS HOTEL CASINO 09/10/2006 09/15/2006 800
• WEIGHT WATCHERS FRANCHISE ASSOCIATION
• FOUR SEASONS HOTEL LAS VEGAS 09/10/2006 09/14/2006 35
• WESTERN PAYMENTS ALLIANCE
• WESTIN CASUARINA HOTEL & SPA, THE 09/10/2006 09/12/2006 250
• INTERNATIONAL TOURISM SAFETY AND SECURITY CONFERENCE
• LUXOR HOTEL AND CASINO 09/11/2006 09/12/2006 300

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The Las Vegas Monorail expansion would include the Sands Expo Las Vegas, linking all four major Las Vegas convention centers.

Las Vegas Monorail system expansion plans are in the works to help relieve traffic congestion along the Las Vegas resort corridor, including a hookup with the airport down Swenson Street and new stations that will link all four of the Strip’s major convention centers for the first time.

The Las Vegas Monorail’s plans, which are still being worked on, include adding at least five new stations as well as a series of connections that would link the Las Vegas Monorail to properties on the west side of the Strip, Las Vegas Monorail Co. President Curtis Myles said.

With the new stations, the monorail will link more than 6 million square feet of exhibit and meeting space, including for the first time the Sands Expo and Las Vegas Convention Center, the Mandalay Bay Convention Center and the convention facilities planned at Boyd Gaming’s Echelon Place, enhancing Las Vegas’ role as the convention capital of the country, he said.

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Tropicana Hotel Las Vegas real estate new owner Columbia Sussex CEO William Yung claims ownership, he plans on taking a wrecking ball to the sprawling, low-rise buildings that cover many of the site’s 34 acres. In an interview with “Casino Enterprise Management,” Yung announced that “our plans are basically to keep the two Las Vegas hotel Tropicana towers and showroom, and then pretty much get rid of everything else.”

As part of a $2 billion overhaul to the Tropicana, William Yung would erect a 3,000-room Tropicana Las Vegas hotel, another 3,000 rooms branded to “Marriott, Hilton or something like that,” to be followed by a Las Vegas condo tower or a third, 3,000-room hotel. An additional 1.5 million square feet of Las Vegas commercial real estate development would be one-third retail, one-third meeting space and commercial for the remainder.

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