I have a big feature in this week’s Vegas Seven: The Las Vegas Strip of the Future. Fittingly, I approached the future by taking in the past: Looking at how the Las Vegas Strip has evolved over the past 60 years can give us an idea of where it is headed. We’ll survey what’s popular […]
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Vegas SevenPeople love to ask for predictions. I really don’t like predicting things. So naturally my first Green Felt Journal of the year is a look ahead at 2016. Keep in mind that I’m not trying to predict anything here; I’m just talking about what is scheduled to happen, and what it might all mean. So
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Vegas SevenIn my latest Green Felt Journal, I riff on remarks MGM chairman Jim Murren made about his company’s Park development and the future of the Strip by imagining what the Strip will look like in 2019: An interesting way to ponder the Strip’s trajectory is to follow Murren’s lead, play the long game, and imagine
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Vegas SevenA while back, some folks asked me what I thought the near-future held for Las Vegas gaming and tourism. After mulling over some of the LVCVA data for the past 40 years, I gave them six different scenarios. This might be nice for a wider audience, I thought. But, since I had a lot on
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life in vegas, news about gamblingInspired by Gerald Davis’ Managed by the Markets, I wrote an LVBP column about similarities between gaming companies and other ones. My bold suggestion is that the gaming industry is more like than unalike others: As big as the companies that run Las Vegas casinos seem in this town, they're really on the small side