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Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013 | 11:57 a.m.
LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Strip, home to themed casinos that mimic the canals of Venice and the skyscrapers of Manhattan, is getting a new events center modeled on an Eastern European glass factory. The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas is developing a 3,000-capacity theater that has sat empty since the hotel-casino opened in 2010. The auditorium is expected to open by the end of the year and cater to conventioneers, boxing fans or concert-goers. By contrast, the Coliseum at Caesars Palace, where singer Celine Dion performed her long-running residency, seats 4,000. CEO John Unwin told The Associated Press that ...
This is big news.
Where are the pictures?
"Imagine a Czechoslovakian glass factory."
Uh, what? Sure, that's something we do all the time here in well-educated and world-wise Las Vegas. Perhaps he's just trolling us.
(Not that I'm against the concept. And I love CityCenter. But most of us can imagine unbuilt Ferris Wheels and tall blue buildings at the northern end of the Strip with blown-out windows more easily than imagining glass factories of whatever kind.)
"Imagine a glass factory in Czechoslovakia" - "Czechoslovakia" doesn't exist for 20 years... you meant to say the Czech Republic?
Not only that, alexanderh, it's not even in Eastern Europe as the caption of the article's lead picture states.
Could you knuckleheads try to use your imaginations please!
As always, Las Vegas rises above the challenges. Congrats to the Cosmopolitan for finding a way to navigate the recession and become a premier Strip property.
"Imagine a Czechoslovakian glass factory."
Hmmm... Well, I imagine open flames and assembly lines and boxes of beer steins and...hmmm...what else? People dressed in all-white uniforms and fork-lifts and really clean floors.
Sounds like a blast! Can't wait to party there.
Will we be able to buy Czech-made "Chelsea" shot glasses in the gift shop?