It was imploded in November 2007 to make way for a replica of New York’s Plaza Hotel. Other developers wanted to build a faux Swiss Ski Resort or San Francisco style casino.
But the Las Vegas City Council has been frowning on the “theme park” development concepts that characterized the 1990s, preferring to sell the city as a sophisticated adult playground (rather than an ‘Orlando in the Desert’).
Here’s a video:
lvgeno on
January 28, 2009 at
7:39 am
Gone for good. There are lots of videos on youtube for you to view. Just search for frontier implosion.
Jacob W on
January 29, 2009 at
12:44 pm
Speak about it in the past tense.
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3 comments
SFdude on January 27, 2009 at 10:43 am
It was imploded in November 2007 to make way for a replica of New York’s Plaza Hotel. Other developers wanted to build a faux Swiss Ski Resort or San Francisco style casino.
But the Las Vegas City Council has been frowning on the “theme park” development concepts that characterized the 1990s, preferring to sell the city as a sophisticated adult playground (rather than an ‘Orlando in the Desert’).
Here’s a video:
lvgeno on January 28, 2009 at 7:39 am
Gone for good. There are lots of videos on youtube for you to view. Just search for frontier implosion.
Jacob W on January 29, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Speak about it in the past tense.
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