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The Newest Rumored Andre Balazs Hotel: Sin City

January 9, 2008 at 9:15 AM | by | Comments (0)

Somehow we got caught up in reading Robin Leach's Luxe Life Vegas blog the other day. Normally, we would chide ourselves for breaking our 2008 resolution of not being so celeb-obsessed but this bit of ADD internet surfing actually paid off.

A post from the end of December details some enormous Vegas project that's happening behind the strip.

Over 60-acres of land stretching down Harmon between the Planet Hollywood resort and condo towers to the Hard Rock hotel has been packaged together by the Africa-Israel Investment Bank, which is controlled by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev.

Several boutique hotels are planned for this parcel, so says Robin. Giuseppee Cipriani will plan a boutique hotel and the planned Elvis Presley-themed hotel should pop up here.

And Robin says he's been "reliably told" that Andre Balazs will open a boutique hotel there. So up it goes on the Andre Balazs Hotels: The Real and the Rumored Map. While this is interesting for sure--will it be a Standard Hotel or something completely new?--everyone is looking to do something in Vegas these days. So we expect all these boutique hoteliers to look to Sin City.

One more interesting thing: Robin also mentions a large 2,500 room luxury complex will spring up in this parcel--"probably a hip trendy W hotel," he says. Oh god, here we go again.

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