MGM Mirage Coming to Atlantic City
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MGM Mirage Coming to Town
This portion of my column is dedicated to those naysayers who continue to say Pinky is wrong when he writes that MGM Mirage is going to build a magnificent casino hotel on the remaining 70 acres they own at the Renaissance Pointe site. It will be located between the Borgata and Harrah's.
I know that many of you remember the history of the development of the 130 acres of former dumpsite that has become Rennaisance Pointe. Steve Wynn, whose Mirage Corporation was given the site by Atlantic City to build a mega-casino hotel, came up with several renditions of what he wanted to build on that site. He showed a lot of renderings, but never produced a development. However, Mirage became a partner with the Boyd Gaming Corporation, who fulfilled the commitment by constructing the Borgata Casino Hotel & Spa, which helped revitalize Atlantic City's casino industry.
MGM Grand purchased Steve Wynn's Mirage Corporation and they became the MGM Mirage Corporation. A couple of years ago Terry Lanni, CEO of MGM Mirage, told attendees at a casino meeting at Boardwalk Hall that the company was going to build on their Atlantic City site. Unfortunately, their Atlantic City plans were put back in the closet and they remained there until earlier this year. Due to the success of the Borgata facility, which is 50-percent owned by MGM Mirage, the plans have been taken out of the closet.
As this writer has revealed, MGM Mirage has put together a construction team that has been having meetings in Las Vegas. They are getting ready to come to Atlantic City sometime in the early part of 2006 to make an announcement. They will then begin their permit phase and hopefully, by mid year, they anticipate putting their plan into the construction phase of development. Believe me, it is going to happen. You can bet on it.
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Enzo Stuarti Now Singing in Heaven
Forty-four years ago, Jack Berenato, owner and operator of Luigi's Restaurant, at Arkansas and Pacific avenues, asked me if I would be interested in managing a nightclub he was building, adjacent to the restaurant, to be called Luigi's Gondola Room. He was informed that this writer had no experience in that field. He said we would learn together. And that we did. We went to New York and met with several booking agents at Toots Shore's restaurant. It was there that we lined up most of the acts for that summer. They included Leslie Uggams, Dick Haymes, Fran Jeffries, Allen and Rossi, Kitty Kallen, Earl Grant and several others.
We had a date open in early July and an agent told us about Enzo Stuarti, a singer who had received rave reviews and just closed at New York's Plaza Hotel. We booked him along with a relatively unknown comedian named Pat Cooper. It turned out to be one of the best shows we had all summer, so good that we booked them back for the Labor Day weekend.
Cooper, as most of you know, turned out to be an outstanding comic who has played the Atlantic City casino circuit for years. Enzo Stuarti returned on many occasions and was acclaimed for his powerful voice and warm, friendly personality. He taught his audience something as he ended his show with a statement that I adopted as a way of life. His closing line was, "In this world there are not strangers, only friends who haven't met."
Stuarti personified that idea as he greeted one and all and treated everybody equally no matter who they were. Earlier this week, Stuarti took a booking he couldn't refuse. He has an eternal booking in heaven's top nightclub, alongside Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. He led a full, rewarding and enjoyable life and made those who saw his act feel like they were a part of his family. This column closed using that theme for many years in its earlier days and in tribute to Enzo Stuarti and because many of us need to be reminded of this concept, it will again become the closing line of this column.
MGM Mirage Coming to Town
This portion of my column is dedicated to those naysayers who continue to say Pinky is wrong when he writes that MGM Mirage is going to build a magnificent casino hotel on the remaining 70 acres they own at the Renaissance Pointe site. It will be located between the Borgata and Harrah's.
I know that many of you remember the history of the development of the 130 acres of former dumpsite that has become Rennaisance Pointe. Steve Wynn, whose Mirage Corporation was given the site by Atlantic City to build a mega-casino hotel, came up with several renditions of what he wanted to build on that site. He showed a lot of renderings, but never produced a development. However, Mirage became a partner with the Boyd Gaming Corporation, who fulfilled the commitment by constructing the Borgata Casino Hotel & Spa, which helped revitalize Atlantic City's casino industry.
MGM Grand purchased Steve Wynn's Mirage Corporation and they became the MGM Mirage Corporation. A couple of years ago Terry Lanni, CEO of MGM Mirage, told attendees at a casino meeting at Boardwalk Hall that the company was going to build on their Atlantic City site. Unfortunately, their Atlantic City plans were put back in the closet and they remained there until earlier this year. Due to the success of the Borgata facility, which is 50-percent owned by MGM Mirage, the plans have been taken out of the closet.
As this writer has revealed, MGM Mirage has put together a construction team that has been having meetings in Las Vegas. They are getting ready to come to Atlantic City sometime in the early part of 2006 to make an announcement. They will then begin their permit phase and hopefully, by mid year, they anticipate putting their plan into the construction phase of development. Believe me, it is going to happen. You can bet on it.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Enzo Stuarti Now Singing in Heaven
Forty-four years ago, Jack Berenato, owner and operator of Luigi's Restaurant, at Arkansas and Pacific avenues, asked me if I would be interested in managing a nightclub he was building, adjacent to the restaurant, to be called Luigi's Gondola Room. He was informed that this writer had no experience in that field. He said we would learn together. And that we did. We went to New York and met with several booking agents at Toots Shore's restaurant. It was there that we lined up most of the acts for that summer. They included Leslie Uggams, Dick Haymes, Fran Jeffries, Allen and Rossi, Kitty Kallen, Earl Grant and several others.
We had a date open in early July and an agent told us about Enzo Stuarti, a singer who had received rave reviews and just closed at New York's Plaza Hotel. We booked him along with a relatively unknown comedian named Pat Cooper. It turned out to be one of the best shows we had all summer, so good that we booked them back for the Labor Day weekend.
Cooper, as most of you know, turned out to be an outstanding comic who has played the Atlantic City casino circuit for years. Enzo Stuarti returned on many occasions and was acclaimed for his powerful voice and warm, friendly personality. He taught his audience something as he ended his show with a statement that I adopted as a way of life. His closing line was, "In this world there are not strangers, only friends who haven't met."
Stuarti personified that idea as he greeted one and all and treated everybody equally no matter who they were. Earlier this week, Stuarti took a booking he couldn't refuse. He has an eternal booking in heaven's top nightclub, alongside Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. He led a full, rewarding and enjoyable life and made those who saw his act feel like they were a part of his family. This column closed using that theme for many years in its earlier days and in tribute to Enzo Stuarti and because many of us need to be reminded of this concept, it will again become the closing line of this column.
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