Vegas Rolls the Dice in Macao
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With American moguls pouring in billions, the Chinese are building
another Strip on the South China Sea
By Alexandra A. Seno
Newsweek
June 21 issue - A few blocks from Macao's eerily vacant international
airport, the wind blows a bamboo basket through wild grass. Meanwhile,
on the other side of the world, Las Vegas tycoon Sheldon Adelson
sketches his vision for this weedy swath of Macao: a 120-acre, $10
billion "Cotai Strip" of 20 casino-resorts with up to 3,000 rooms
each, operated by big chains like Hilton and Marriott. The anchor
hotel will be a reproduction of the Venetian, one of Adelson's Vegas
casinos, with opera-singing gondoliers plying a man-made canal, stores
masquerading as Italian palazzos, a spa, a museum and so on. "Our
advertising will say: 'Asian Las Vegas'," says Adelson.
Macao
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