You know your city is doing something right when this happens. Las Vegas has a new hotel that is proposed called City By The Bay Resort and Casino. The hotel will have San Francisco landmarks such as Coit Tower, Golden Gate Bridge, Lombard Street, Chinatown, and many others.

Post your thoughts on this hotel.

Here are some renderings
http://www.bwaltd.com/bwaweb/images/port/big/cit110.jpg

http://www.bwaltd.com/bwaweb/images/port/big/cit100.jpg

I put this in the United States forum because the West Coast forum moves too slow, and it might take hours to get a response.

Wow now thats going to be an awesome resort and casino. Maybe they should do a Seattle? :)

Also in the hotel will be Fisherman's Wharf, the Castro Theatre, the Embarcadero Clock Tower, and Napa vineyards.

Castro theatre....great, now gay people don't have to go All the way to SF...citybythebay will become the new gay mecca...lol!!

Maybe Las Vegas could develop a hotel influenced by Houston, Phoenix or Atlanta? Oh... that would be the rest of Las Vegas ;)

This also reinforces my idea that Chicago isn't the second city. LA is with SF popping up like this once in awhile like this. Las Vegas has done NY and now they are doing SF, will they ever do Chicago in Vegas? Hell no. Will they do LA, maybe not, especially since LA is just a short drive away anyway.

It is just like how RealWorld did NY, LA then SF and didn't bother to do Chicago until 8th.

This also reinforces my idea that Chicago isn't the second city. LA is with SF popping up like this once in awhile like this. Las Vegas has done NY and now they are doing SF, will they ever do Chicago in Vegas? Hell no. Will they do LA, maybe not, especially since LA is just a short drive away anyway.

It is just like how RealWorld did NY, LA then SF and didn't bother to do Chicago until 8th.

Sorry, but I believe none of those cases warrents any real validity of either city being 'second city'. You're talking about a tacky tourist trap & a tv show.

Sorry, but I believe none of those cases warrents any real validity of either city being 'second city'. You're talking about a tacky tourist trap & a tv show.

I agree with you except for the tacky tourist trap. Las Vegas has done a tremendous job on their theme hotels. Just look at Paris and the Venetian. I would say New York New York, but the Empire State Building and the Chrysler building looks so fake.

Sorry, but I believe none of those cases warrents any real validity of either city being 'second city'. You're talking about a tacky tourist trap & a tv show.

It is tacky, but it still shows the allure of cities like SF over supposedly larger cities.

I agree with you except for the tacky tourist trap. Las Vegas has done a tremendous job on their theme hotels. Just look at Paris and the Venetian. I would say New York New York, but the Empire State Building and the Chrysler building looks so fake.

How about Bourgeoisie Tacky? ;)

This also reinforces my idea that Chicago isn't the second city. LA is with SF popping up like this once in awhile like this. Las Vegas has done NY and now they are doing SF, will they ever do Chicago in Vegas? Hell no. Will they do LA, maybe not, especially since LA is just a short drive away anyway.

It is just like how RealWorld did NY, LA then SF and didn't bother to do Chicago until 8th.

So, is this your life's work, Silverlake? Debunking the "myth" that Chicago is America's Second City? It's getting kinda old, and I'm sure you have more interesting things to say than this.

I notice that the shopping complex seems to be modeled on pier 39. A tacky tourist trap imitating a tacky tourist trap. Ridiculous.

Will they have those fake "cable car" tour buses that drive around SF, or will they have real cable cars with bus wheels sticking out the sides?

Does anyone have any updates on this project? Just curious.

Cheers!!

Ideally, the entire hotel could be put on springs and jolted every few hours. Then those fake fire socks could rise up and "burn" the city down. Also, the Summer of Love could be reenacted by paid escorts.

Does anyone have any updates on this project? Just curious.

Cheers!!
I heard it's cancelled.

Wow this is starting to get sad. They should have made it for all of California at least, I mean NY is one thing but SF? Well they already have one based on New Orleans so I guess this is fair...

And San Diego is bigger then SF but Im not going to complain about it. Chicago doesn't need to be copied and pasted, its fine being real.

I don't understand patterning a casino after a real city, especially one that is less than 500 miles away. It seems that the ones that are patterned after some sort of fantasy are much better ideas.

Wow this is starting to get sad. They should have made it for all of California at least, I mean NY is one thing but SF?
What's that suppose to mean. :gunz:

What's that suppose to mean. :gunz:

It means I don't think SF should be a casino/resort/whatever all by itself. :guns1:

This also reinforces my idea that Chicago isn't the second city. LA is with SF popping up like this once in awhile like this. Las Vegas has done NY and now they are doing SF, will they ever do Chicago in Vegas? Hell no. Will they do LA, maybe not, especially since LA is just a short drive away anyway.

It is just like how RealWorld did NY, LA then SF and didn't bother to do Chicago until 8th.

only Silverlake is astute and intellectual enough to realize that Las Vegas's construction of a San Francisco-themed hotel further proves the point that Chicago is in deep decline.

I say this with great respect, as Silverlake has always been one of the greatest minds and most articulate posters on the board. He is, no doubt, correct in his observations about the eminent demise of the Windy City. Silverlake has gone on to further his compelling argument about Chicago's race to irrelevancy by observing that:

• flowers come in an asortment of colors

• birds fly south for the winter

• you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time

• beans cause gas

• crotch itch isn't painful, but it can be embarassing

edsg25,

That is a brilliant assessment of the "Charm" of Silverlake. :hilarious

I've read quite a few of his threads and he's an entertaining chap, no doubt about that.

Ahh, this forum woudn't be the same if it didn't have members like Silverlake. :naughty:

Cheers!!

very cool idea...they should do a seattle!

The cancelled the San Francisco based casino? *gasp* I guess Vegas will have to survive with such new projects like:
London Hotel and Casino
http://www.lasvegassun.com/from.ed/2001/jan/10/photos/P000041554.jpg
Playboy Las Vegas
http://www.paulsteelman.com/html/images_lg/playboy3d_1.jpg
Harley Davidson Hotel Casino
http://www.paulsteelman.com/html/images_lg/harley1.jpg
:rofl:

^^Are all of those real??

Aren't all of those cancelled also or are you being sarcastic?

Las Vegas need have Little Los Angeles, Little Angeleno or Little Hollywood that including with mountain, Hollywood sign, US Bank tower (all skyscraper from Downtown LA), Hollywood bowl, fake highway (cuz LA is car city) and something other.

It is tacky, but it still shows the allure of cities like SF over supposedly larger cities.


"Supposedly" larger cities?

San Francisco isn't that far away from Las Vegas so I don't see why they have to built a resort based on it. Given that the city by the bay is worth an experience itself, people should just experience the real thing instead of a tacky hotel. I'm not a big fan of New York New York either, as well as that London hotel. Its okay to base a hotel on a theme like Treasure Island or Excalibur but on a city? C'mon!

I think they should have a Vegas themed hotel on Vegas.

Aren't all of those cancelled also or are you being sarcastic?

I am being sarcastic, but those projects are for real. I am not sure if any of those will become reality thou.

Too bad Silverlake, Chicago will continue to be the architectural capital of the world.
Best we just stick to enjoying our favorite cities and not waste time demeaning others.
For me, Chicago provides endless hours of enjoyment from the earliest buildings to the latest developments. (Trump Tower u/c)

Personally, I don't like it. I am not a huge fan of Vegas though. I agree with the statement that hotels like Excalibur and Aladdin are OK, but why try to turn a city into a hotel? One honestly cannot say that they have been to New York City by staying a night at New York New York...


Can they?

No, I don't think so. And of all those "city casinos", New York New York is probably the worst. Its a given that those casinos will play with the monuments of each of the cities for their own good, but the New York casino just ridiculizes the city to a new level. And the interior of the casino isn't that better!

I wanna see an LA restort. Even though much of the people who go to las vegas are from LA...and its so close you might as well go to LA...but whatever. Build it!

I see like going to Japan and visiting 'America Town'.


And for anyone who watches the Simpsons they know what Im talking about. :)

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