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Las Vegas Aladdin Hotel receives $140 million face lift with set completion for the end of 2006 for this 2,587 room Las Vegas resort.

The Westgate Resorts Las Vegas timeshare and Las Vegas condos tower is located east on Harmon Avenue. The Las Vegas Planet Hollywood Towers, like the Strip façade, will be under a change of appearance.

Some construction inside of the Planet Hollywood casino will be removal of a lounge to create more casino space. There will also be a new 1,500 seat auditorium and a retail area. The Desert Passage shopping mall will have new signage and better pedestrian corridors.

Construction has been more complex and taken a little longer than expected because the property has stayed open while the crews continue with the remodel.

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Spanish Palms Las Vegas condo homes offers some of the same conveniences of living in a single-family home, including attached garages with an automatic door opener.

Spanish Palms amenities offered at these Las Vegas condos are a fitness room with exercise equipment, entertaining clubhouse, with a big-screen tv, living room and a kitchen. Enjoy the two crystal clear swimming pools, sun a spa areas and a barbecue area for entertaining. The Spanish Palms fitness area is open 24 hours a day with a flat screen tv.

There is a small association fee of $176 for the professional landscaping, water, trash, sewer, and building maintenance.

Each Spanish Palms condo comes available with granite counter tops, stainless-steel appliances, fireplace, upgraded lighting fixtures, oak cabinetry and a balcony or patio.

Some of the upgrades features of these condos include travertine surrounds of the entry, bathrooms, fireplace, kitchen and laundry area.

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Charlie Palmer celebrity chef plans a boutique Charlie Palmer Las Vegas condo-hotel at Dean Martin Drive and Tropicana Avenue.

The $400 million Charlie Palmer real estate development is scheduled to break ground later 2006, with completion expected sometime 2008.

The Charlie Palmer condo-hotel will have mostly studio and one-bedroom condo units ranging from 550 - 800 square feet and priced starts at the high $400,000’s.

Celebrity chef and entrepreneur Charlie Palmer likes to see the immediate results of the restaurant business. Now, it will be a couple of years in his newest business creation.

Owner of Charlie Palmer Steak at Four Seasons Hotel, Aureole at Mandalay Bay, plans to build Charlie Palmer Hotel and condos, a 35-story boutique Las Vegas condo-hotel, on three acres at Dean Martin Drive and Tropicana Avenue, the current site of the Golden Palm hotel.

The Hotel Healdsburg, Charlie Palmer, built three years ago in California’s Sonoma County, will be similar to this current boutique condo hotel slated for Las Vegas. Being self contained and not associated with a resort is the Charlie Palmer Condo’s goals different from other projects such as Cosmopolitan condos, Project City Center and Echelon Place.

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The Las Vegas building boom worth $20 billion, a five year timeline, is under way on the Las Vegas Strip. It will roughly double the inventory of luxury hotel rooms costing $200 a night or more, a new Standard & Poor’s study said.

This newfound focus on upscale visitors is largely a response to continuing Las Vegas demographic shifts.

Real estate projects that S&P said probably would be completed include:

• The $1.8 billion Palazzo Las Vegas high rise with 3,025 rooms.

• The $1.7 billion Encore Wynn Las Vegas with 2,054 rooms.

• The $7 billion MGM Mirage Project CityCenter with 7,700 rooms.

• The $4 billion Echelon Place with 3,300 rooms.

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