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twitterPlaza owners in New York win naming fight in Vegas
Mon, Oct 6, 2008 (2:42 p.m.)
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The owners of the Plaza Hotel in New York have won a court fight to use the Plaza name for a casino-resort planned on the Las Vegas Strip.
El-Ad Group, the developers of the planned multibillion dollar resort, said Monday they expect to break ground in spring 2010 and open in 2012.
El-Ad Group was sued by Tamares Las Vegas Properties LLC, which owns the Plaza Hotel & Casino in downtown Las Vegas.
El-Ad says a Clark County District Court jury sided with them because of federal trademarks that allow El-Ad to use the brand throughout the country.
The new Plaza complex is expected to be built on the former site of the New Frontier casino-hotel, which was demolished by implosion in November 2007.
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Locally owned and independent for more than 50 years.
So does the downtown Plaza have to change its name?
In 1997 I once spit on the carpet in the keno area of the Plaza and made a clean spot. No Lie.
Unbelievable. A jury of Nevadans decided this??? A foreign entity is allowed to crap all over a local business (also now foreign owned, but the house that Jackie built should still be shown some respect.) -- people must really hate the Plaza (downtown.) I personally have lost a long standing American trademark to a foreign business and let me tell you -- it is absolutely crushing, financially and morally. This is what is wrong with America and Las Vegas -- there is no value in history, it is all about the Benjamins. Las Vegas next year will be in the severe clutches of a DEEP Depression, and the city will begin emptying out. It's going to get a WHOLE lot worse before it gets better. If the foreign money can hold on they will own it all. America as we know it will be gone with the wind.