A view of the pool at Oasis at Gold Spike in downtown Las Vegas on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014. The Oasis, a boutique hotel owned and operated by the Downtown Project, officially unveiled renovations during a tour Tuesday.
Published Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014 | 2 a.m.
Updated Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014 | 10:14 a.m.
Our bureau at the moment is Oasis at Gold Spike, where we start our wrap of VegasVille.
Some of the numbers to know about the recently reopened boutique hotel, formally relaunched by the Downtown Project after a soft opening in mid-September:
44: Number of rooms.
57: Number of rooms offered by the hotel in its previous incarnation. A few adjoining rooms had walls knocked down for larger suites known as Ultimate Crash Pads.
520: Square footage of an Ultimate Crash Pad.
300: Square footage of a standard room, known as Premier Crash Pads.
11: number of full-time employees.
27: Age of General Manager David Sosa.
$229, $269: Posted rates for Premier Crash Pads and Ultimate Crash Pads, respectively, entering the Life Is Beautiful festival.
$199, $239: Posted rates for Premier Crash Pads and Ultimate Crash Pads for New Year’s Eve.
$109,$129: Midweek rates for Premier Crash Pads and Ultimate Crash Pads.
2: Number of 1960s-style Huffy bicycles available for rent at the hotel.
$50: Daily rental cost for a bike (and you must wear a bike helmet, provided by staff).
52: Age of the hotel. It opened in 1962 as the Travel Inn and sat closed for years until it was bought, along with the neighboring Gold Spike, by the Siegel Group in 2007. Siegel sold it to the Downtown Project in 2013.
$26 million: Price the Siegel Group paid.
$27 million: Price the Downtown Project paid.
Zero: Number of phones and alarm clocks offered in rooms (although if you need one or both, call the front desk. They can help.)
The cost of the renovations, which Sosa described as “down to the studs,” landed somewhere between $2 million and $9 million, as Downtown Project officials decline to give a more specific figure.
That doesn’t factor in money previously invested by the Siegel Group, estimated to be at least $2 million. By the mid-2000s, the place had fallen into such bad repair that then-Mayor Oscar Goodman said he wouldn’t walk inside.
It was a real dump when Siegel bought the parcel, after the Travel Inn had been closed for five years. But over the next couple of years, Oasis was restored to the point where it was a refurbished boutique hotel.
Nonetheless, Downtown Project reps describe the overhaul of the property as complete and comprehensive. This information was delivered after the deadline for the print edition of this column, but a Downtown Project spokesman says the big outlay by the new owners was a full remodel of every room, down to the framing. This includes a full asbestos remediation; all new plumbing; an upgraded electrical system; and renovation of walls, ceilings, furniture, fixtures and finishes. The exterior was primarily paint, signage and landscaping.
• During his most recent appearance at his speaker series at his eponymous restaurant at the Plaza, Oscar Goodman told dinner guests, “I am sure there are remnants of the Mafia in existence today.” He detoured when asked about the Black Book of people banned from casinos by the Nevada Gaming Control Board, saying, “The Black Book is the most unconstitutional document in the history of the world … it’s a joke.”
Goodman is scheduled to speak again, likely about the Black Book, in a January talk at Oscar’s Beef, Booze & Broads. The date is being finalized, but given Goodman’s ire at the topic after just a single question, this one should be a dandy.
During the Oct. 9 talk, Goodman also was asked who he considers the top attorney in Las Vegas today. His answer: “Gosh, I’ve been out of it so long … all I can say is you should definitely contact Ross Goodman.”
Yes, that’s Oscar’s son and founder of Goodman Law Group.
• A street connecting the Strip to Industrial Road whose name was never used to full effect finally has been changed. That would be Echelon Road, named as the Echelon project broke ground in 2007.
That stretch of connective asphalt now is known as Resorts World Way, swapped after Genting Group bought the land with plans to build a multibillion-dollar Resorts World Las Vegas.
Small thing at the moment, but it should be a busy boulevard in three years or so.
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