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Las Vegas Sands opened its newest casino in Bethlehem, Pa., in 2009. The $743 million casino’s architecture pays homage to the steel mill.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 | 11:16 a.m.
Las Vegas Sands will open a hotel at its Pennsylvania casino in May.
The Sands Hotel at the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, Pa., will be a 300-room, luxury hotel and the largest in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley area, the company announced this week.
The hotel will include 16 executive suites and six presidential suites with the amenities most Las Vegas hotels boast, such as wireless Internet, connectivity ports and flat-screen TVs. According to the hotel’s website, rates start at $149 for the first available nights.
Lee Architecture Associates and Nobel Hampton Interiors designed the new hotel in a contemporary style with dark woods and neutral tones, a press release from the company noted.
Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse will open a new dining concept at the hotel called Emeril’s Italian Table, his first Italian restaurant, which is expected to open in late spring. Lagassse already has two restaurants at the casino.
The Sands Hotel will also include 5,000 square feet of meeting space, 3,000 square feet of exhibit space, a pool and fitness center.
Las Vegas Sands opened the Sands Casino Resort on the Bethlehem Steel plant site in May 2009. The casino includes 3,000 slots, 100 table games, six restaurants and three bars.
Plans at the resort call for a 200,000-square-foot shopping center and a 50,000-square-foot multi-purpose space.
This is funny the people in this state are fooled by the big owners of casino's in this state. They pay a merger 6% gaming tax and claining broke and we would lose jobs if it got increase and they had to pay there fair share. Well here is a piece from the state of PA. with the new opening of the Sands Casino.
Addition to the 55 percent gaming tax rate, casino operators must also reimburse the state for the oversight costs of the Gaming Control Board, Pennsylvania State Police, Department of Revenue and Office of Attorney General. In this way, the regulatory costs of the four agencies are paid directly by operators and at no cost to taxpayers.
Well Nevada who is the suckers. Start paying attention to facts and not bull. Tell our state lawmakers wake up and smell the roses. Us little people are paying thru the nose to make them billions.
figmo,
The dynamics are different in the State of Nevada compared to the State of Pennsylvania.
The State of Nevada is a single industry state.
The government and politicians do not have the leverage to conduct business any differently.
However, if the State of Nevada were to diversify it's economy the dynamics would change and what you suggest could be an option.
Hopefully this news is considered as "good news" and therefore will help LVS stocks to return to levels between 46 and 48, as if so, it would pay for my entire trip to Vegas this spring :)
From Switzerland
"neutral" I don't know how long you have been here but I have lived here 41 years. I have seen time after time the gaming indrustry do everything they can to make sure this county is a one of kind dynamics. When you have more colleges with more of than just hotel industry college then the state will change. For thirty years the Nv Senate tried to raised the tax to 9 % the casino's spent millions in buying off the lawmakers and Raggio the hero of the right made sure it never passed the senate. So your theory is based on to today, what about yesterday 70's, 80's 90's.Here is the taxes New Jersey 12%, Miss. 29%, LA. 35%, PA. 55%, Indian 12%, China 29% buy the way Mauca has only casinio's, Singapore 29%. Like I said the people in this state need to wake up and stop listening to the billioniars making money off this states back. By the way mining is the largest in the country. If you notice the other comment all they worry about is the stock market. That is what is happening in America billioniars. PERIOD