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Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 | 2:27 p.m.
Clark County commissioners voted not to support a feasibility study for the Bali Hai golf course, which they previously voted to close and convert into commercial property.
The golf course, which is on Las Vegas Boulevard across from McCarran International Airport, is on land owned by the airport, which is part of the county.
The course has generated money, but not enough to pay for its start-up debt, so the county has never collected rent for the land.
The developer of the course, the Walters Group, suggested turning the course into commercial real estate to generate more money.
Commissioners voted July 20 to approve the plan in concept but haven't approved a final agreement between the county and the Walters Group.
Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani, who voted against the plan, later proposed having an outside party do a feasibility study for the course, but in the end of Tuesday’s discussion, she was the only one to vote for the study.
Commissioner Tom Collins called the idea of keeping the golf course "feeding a sick cow."
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Why couldn't Mr. Walters pay for the study? It seems he is the one wanting to do this. Otherwise, some consulting firm is way overpaid to say that the golf course should not remain.
Yeah, doing a feasibility study would make too much sense before diving in and spending a ton of money on an already overdeveloped section of the strip, and add to our already huge inventory of empty commercial real estate buildings. We wouldn't want to do things the right way, or the most logical way, now would we?
Lower the rates, advertise specials with the neighboring casino's, and it'll be full.
That place is always dead, charging way too much for what it is and don't do any advertising, just a paycheck for the board.