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Sapphire, billed as the world's largest strip club at a cavernous 71,000 sq. ft., opened two years ago with a party attended by Rachel Hunter, Carmen Electra, Dave Navarro and Tommy Lee. It used to be a mega-gym with a regulation basketball court until the owners decided to turn it into a club. "In real estate, the land goes to the highest and best use," explains co-owner Peter Feinstein. Now instead of collecting gym fees, he charges women $60 to $100 a night to sell $20 lap dances, along with the more profitable revenue stream from...
...nightclub." I decide to give it a shot. I start talking to a table of Orange County, Calif., elementary-school teachers, all female, who have brought a friend to take her mind off her divorce. The conversation is going well, as I find out that this is the first strip club most of them have ever been to, and they find out that I'm married and have never kissed anyone else since meeting my wife. For a guy alone at a strip club, I am coming off like Alan Alda...
...apparently is much stronger than he looks. Their parents gave them a bunch of local casinos, which, along with revenue made from consulting with Native Americans on casino operations, they have used to build the slick Green Valley Ranch Resort & Spa, a hotel about 15 minutes from the Strip that is the choice for celebrities who are too cool for the crowds. As in the Palms, the casino--which is on a different floor from the lobby and contains a food court--is for local regulars and the rooms are for tourist regulars. The Fertittas are building an even nicer...
...meet, live and perhaps form the kind of community Vegas has never had--one in which people no longer change their cell-phone numbers every six months to escape from attachments, debts and exes. Real estate companies are racing to put up 20-story condo towers near the Strip. "People want to own a piece of Vegas," says Jeff Soffer, 36, principal owner of Miami-based Turnberry Associates, which is building condominium towers at the MGM Grand. The company had estimated it would take two years to sell the apartments in the first MGM tower. It took three months...
...Mayor Goodman calls, without irony, the intellectual center of Vegas. That center is being defined, in true American fashion, not by an ocean or an island but by a stretch of highway. "That's the view," says Lorenzo Fertitta from the presidential suite at the Green Valley Ranch. "The Strip is the beach and the water...