Yeah 44 million passengers is "no one".

Its $15 to get in and free parking, that should be the message. What else can you do in this town for that much?

I think the obvious problem though is location, just like with the tennis tournament. Summerlin is a fantastic location in terms of setting and drawing in the right demographic of locals, but it ignores the obvious resource of the 200,000 visitors in town. If they could ever get the golf or tennis on the Strip it would see a huge bump in attendance. Probably even enough to invest quite a bit into getting the courses tougher to make it interesting for PGA players.

In any event the marketing of the event to draw in tourists has to get better. Locals are clearly showing their apathy for second-class events and minor league sports. Unless they get stars of the sport here none of these events are going to draw enough locals.

November and beyond will likely show an increase, some airlines are actually considering adding a little bit of capacity to the market as well. Why is it the local papers spend all their time rehashing the past instead of being insightful towards the future?

So what aren't we still capitalists here? Stores come and go, when lots go then rents go down and competitors go down. Then before you know it the conditions are ripe for a recovery as the survivors or the new entrants fill the void. There is tons of traffic in that area and it is the only good retail hub for almost a third of the valley, it won't ever have a lack of demand for long. The economy as it stands is pretty much insuring no other viable competition is going to come online.

If people were smarter and didn't just jump on any bandwagon of blame they'd realize these basics and the Sun probably wouldn't be printing these stories.

Good for them. This town thankfully continues to draw people who create realistic projects despite the endless blah blah blah from the naysayers. Perish the thought if Steve Wynn listened to all the whiners in this town when he started building the Mirage.

What "very educated" people can't seem to find a job here Mandy? I know of a whopping one person with a college degree and reasonable work experience without a job in this town. One. Two others got jobs recently when they stopped insisting on only taking a dream job and got realistic about taking a decent job that gets a paycheck.

Yeah I'm sure he'll be filling out unemployment forms once the severance period is covered. Please! Why do people here care anyways, he's never lived in Vegas.

Bear do you even know what adequate fan support is in the ECHL? The Wranglers get well above average support by league standards. Oh by the way Bear, which radio or TV station can I follow the Wranglers on?

Who really cares what stadium in Las Vegas they hold it in? To say its more fair in another stadium is a joke, what are people going to refuse to drive a few miles? If the other schools don't like it, tell them to start buying more tickets and getting their fans to use them.

Salt Lake, now that is hilarious. That makes it more fair? That will make it an even bigger home court advantage for another team. MWC coaches can complain all they want, but they have to admit far more fans for opposing teams are in the building in Vegas than they would ever get in any of these choices.

Pretty soon people will be blaming Obama for cancer with that sort of thinking about drilling and house values.

Who cares what these values say anymore? The only sellers at these prices are either corporate owners (banks) or those seriously desperate to sell. The problem is the only buyers are investors whose only goal is to push these prices lower. Once the media gets tired of this charade and stops blowing up what it means, regular buyers will come back and the prices will recover somewhat. Scarce commodities selling for well below the cost to build them always do.