http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-23T12:24:09Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Las%20Ramblas http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/14/103813/394 <![CDATA[<P> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/w_lasvegas_cancelled.jpg" class="imgborder"> <p><b>The W Las Vegas</b> has crapped out. The hotel and residences were set to open sometime in 2009 but it looks like Edge Resorts has cancelled the project.<p>A HotelChatter tipster, who was actually set to become a W Las Vegas condo owner, pointed us to a letter he received and subsequently posted on <a href="http://www.condohotelforums.com/article.php/2007051113060882">CondoHotel Forum</a>:<blockquote><p><b>Construction costs and financing requirements have grown considerably</b> as we have pursued the development of this project, and it has become extremely difficult to successfully get the costs under control in order to make a proposed project such as ours feasible. As you are likely aware, many proposed projects in Las Vegas are either going on "hold" or being canceled. <p> juliana 2007-05-14T11:11:08-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/8/23/155621/836 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/wlasvegas_room.jpg"><p> It was months ago, January to be exact, when the <a href="http://www.wlasvegas.com"><b>W Las Vegas Hotel & Residences</b></a> premiered at the Sundance Festival. VIP guests were treated to a simulated Living Room of the future hotel, a taste of what the nightlife would be like as Amanda Scheer-Demme would be running the hotel's lounge, a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/1/19/05815/6290/hotels/W_to_Host_First_Ever_Poker_Tourney_and_then_some_at_Sundance">first-ever poker tourney</a> and were even allowed to reserve a condo.<p>But since then, the hype for this hotel has been a little too quiet. We wondered if the place was indeed going to end up as another Las Ramblas, (Clooney's Vegas failure) as a Standard & Poor's report predicted months ago.<p> Which is why we got in touch with a spokesperson at Edge juliana 2006-08-24T10:39:48-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/7/10/171816/453 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/gere_hotel.jpg">Richard Gere's very own hotel project, a 14-acre country hotel in Bedford, New York, has been turned down by the town who said the plans did not include any handicap access.<p>Gere and his partner Russell Hernandez spent $2.7 million on the property "with hopes of converting the 18th century barn into an upmarket complex, complete with country inn and restaurant."<p>For now the duo are going back to the drawing board to figure out how to keep the barn's historic structure while modernizing the entrances for handicap access.<p>We don't like to bring up Las Ramblas but it's worth a mention here. However, at least Gere had some plans to put forth before a town board. Clooney and friends didn't juliana 2006-07-10T17:18:16-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/6/21/104625/464 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/ramblas_cancelled.jpg">Thanks to the extraordinary crash and burn of the George Clooney fronted project, <b>Las Ramblas,</b> people are looking closely at the constant Hotel Hype that floods Las Vegas practically every day.<p>Standard &amp; Poors (an institution that essentially grades companies and their well-being for stock investment purposes) decided to evaluate all these risky, expensive Vegas plans and tell you which ones are safe bets.<p>On the list are:<p>&#183; <b>Palazzo</b>: a 3,025 room annex to the Venetian which is already under construction and is planned to open in 2007.<br>&#183; <b>Encore</b>: Wynn's sequel project will most likely happen just because Steve Wynn's behind it.<br>&#183; <b>Project CityCenter</b>: MGM Mirage has already begun demolition to make way for this $7 billion construction project that juliana 2006-06-21T15:25:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/6/2/114942/3065 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/lasramblas_kaput.jpg">Remember the good old <b>Las Ramblas</b> days?<p>The $3 billion Related casino-hotel-condo project was to be backed by George Clooney, Rande Gerber would do the nightlife and Brad Pitt may have hopped in the mix as well.<p>Then Clooney went on Larry King Live and kept muttering "Mandatory Jackets." Soon rumors surfaced that the project was being pushed back. Finally, the whole thing fell to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/4/3/92539/05742/celeb/Las_Ramblas_Craps_Out">shambles.</a> <p>Now, the <a href="http://www.lvbusinesspress.com/articles/2006/06/01/news/news01.txt">Las Vegas Business Press</a> analyzes what went wrong here and tries to find the answer as to how this project went from major news to a joke told at "local happy hours and dinner parties."<p> The biggest emerging factor for the demise is that it was too costly and didn't juliana 2006-06-02T12:05:50-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/