Letter: Suncoast not right casino type

Friday, Sept. 22, 2000 | 9:24 a.m.

So quickly we forget with the opening of the Suncoast hotel-casino that the site was approved as a destination resort hotel-casino, not to be confused with a "neighborhood casino."

The Regent Las Vegas hotel-casino does fit the criteria that was laid down by Nevada's legislators when they set up the gaming districts. Matt Callister proposed that the sites within Summerlin be destination resort hotel-casinos, not "neighborhood casinos."

When they went in for their approval to the city of Las Vegas, they eagerly presented to the public that they would be destination resorts. It is sad that all of the hard work of the committee to define a destination resort hotel-casino has been swept away with the marketing of the Suncoast as another "neighborhood casino."

Next thing we know, Jack Sommers' Mountain Spa will no longer be a destination resort hotel-casino and he, too, will build a "neighborhood casino."

LILLIAN JACOBSON

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