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...then, as if on cue, here comes Steve Wynn. Three days before Christmas, he opened the new addition to his swanky Wynn Las Vegas resort, a $2.3 billion, 2,034-room playground called Encore. The new property is easily the most decorative and jubilant in the city; it lets in an abundance of natural light while somehow managing to keep the view of a struggling city...
...casino opening always pumps some energy into Las Vegas. But Vegas shares with the rest of the country the feeling that things will get worse before they get better. Whether Encore signals a new beginning for Las Vegas, the way Wynn's Mirage did in 1989, is not a bet to take lightly. "We're still in a fairly early phase in the downturn," says Schwer. "I don't see Steve Wynn sticking his finger in the dike and holding it back...
...Freitag, despite Steve Wynn's recent announcement that he will lower room rates, thinks the picture may not be all gloomy. "If you look at the hotel occupancy rate of 83.5%, well, people in other cities would be ecstatic," says Freitag. "But it's just in Las Vegas, the benchmark is 90%." And while there are reports of some struggling hotels offering free rooms to visitors who gamble as little as $100 at the tables, Scott D. Berman of PricewaterhouseCoopers says the better properties are doing relatively well, at least on weekends. "It's a segmented market," says Berman. "What...
Recipe courtesy of Executive Chef Jet Tila of Las Vegas' Wazuzu (part of Steve Wynn's Encore resort...
...Achilles’ heel. But on Saturday, Penn was the one troubled by its kicking unit. “That was a huge part of the game, huge part of the field position game,” Murphy said. “We emphasized it all week, [Wynn] is a tremendous athlete, one of the better returners in the league. Overall probably our best day against a good unit this year.” The Quakers’ Andrew Samson missed a field goal from just 23 yards out early in the fourth quarter that wound up being the difference...