a blog by Peter Leonard
After a break of a few years (was in Denmark and then Sweden during 2007 and 2008) I made sure to not miss this year’s National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas.
The big news of course is the enormous construction projects, planned during the boom, which are lurching to either a conclusion or a halt, depending on the financial temerity of their backers. In the former category (although barely) is the CityCenter development on the center Strip:
The interior of the Venetian expansion, Palazzo, was also on display:
The whole set of pics is available on Flickr and on my own site.
The day after the convention ended we travelled to a ghost town in the desert, for a glimpse of what a previous Nevada boomtown looked like. Updates from there soon.