Back to the Future — Las Vegas in 25 Years
During the week of Feb. 11, Channel 8 Eyewitness News is taking a look into the future. No, we didn’t place any calls to Miss Cleo. Rather, several of our reporters interviewed leaders in different areas of the community to get an idea what Las Vegas will look like 25 years in the future. So what do you think Las Vegas will be like in 25 years?
Tags: government, Las Vegas, transportation
Categories: Clark County, Current Affairs, Las Vegas History, Las Vegas Life, Nevada Events
February 10th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Not looking real good.
Too much media, too much research, too much money being made by corporations and people are starting to see it.
Mr. Wynn has launched his Asian adventure and California’s Indians have been granted the authority only Bugsy’s Boy’s could authorize decades ago.
It’s over. The builders know it, and the 4000 or so people that leave the sizzling hotbed of a nightmare realize it.
In 25 years, Las Vegas will be a broken down backlash of the technological sophistication that we have created. Casinos and the menacing distortion of fairness will be brought to a halt.
The corporation will have soaked the intelligence dry of the dream of hitting the jackjob.
The forefathers saw the devastation that a place like Las Vegas would cause and like so many other things, they were right on.
Who in their right mind would forsake the mortgage of the American Dream for a few thousand dollars?
In 25 years, gambling will be an outlaw adventure with no place to go but down in history as the biggest mistake the world has ever made.
February 11th, 2008 at 9:25 am
What’s with the anger with the “UNFAIR CASINOS AND WYNNS EMPIRE AND RICH PEOPLE….”Without them we all be out of jobs.I hope the casinos stay strong.Eventualy the whole valley will be build up.Real state prices will go up again.We will have a sports teams and art district and performance center with a lot more do to besides casinos.Lake Mead will be gone and we will be tracking water.
February 11th, 2008 at 9:30 am
With the way the corperations have built this town up,and taken the winning ways out,as well as jacking rooms rates up 3,4 times there normal price,and all for only more than a glorifided motel 6 style room! 25 years? nothing more than a dust bowl! and who is to blame>? themselves! greed and how much money can i die with seems to be there thoughts on Vegas!
February 11th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
RE: COMMENT # 2.
Reply from comment #1 blogger
I don’t see any anger in the “Wynn” comment. I see a brilliant genius who is looking to the future as the blog is asking for. What I do see though is misspellings and bad grammar in your blog.
The fact that Steve has extended his empire to Asia is simply a brilliant move again. Again, he is 20 years ahead of the basic, ignorant, gambling mind.
The corporate casinos have all but stopped “comps”. It use to be that you could go out with your wife or friends, lose a couple hundred bucks and get an outstanding meal or tickets to a show, a coffee mug and a fairly decent looking t-shirt. Those days are over!!
It made sense for people to spend the money because they were given something in return for their “play” and the town was great. Those days are gone and so goes the future of Vegas. Nothing made more sense than to go out for an evening of gambling and having a wonderful dinner to ease the pain of losing at a game you knew you were going to win for long, but played anyway because it is fun! But in the end you had your prime rib dinner and you thought to yourself, “hey, this is just not that bad”.
I don’t think there is anything worse than a pit boss, a host or a manager denying your request for a dinner for 3 in the coffee shop. I mean come on! Have you seen the buffet lately? There is a lot of wasted food there. And these days, the food in the buffet is getting just as bad as the compensation policy.
Personally, I would rather stay at home download a free video poker/slot/keno program from the internet, have my wife by us steak and lobster, fill the fridge with $200.00 worth of food, buy a case of beer and a 1.75 liter of my favorite alcoholic spirit to share with the friends that drop in and out. Don’t stay long but we can have a drink, maybe have something to eat, play a little video poker on the 60 inch big screen and everyone goes home happy.
The casinos would lose their minds. The local taverns would lose their houses. I’m not saying I want any one to lose their house but in comment #1 I clearly stated: Too much media, too much research, too much money being made by corporations and people are starting to see it.
Las Vegas in 25 years will either be a “ghost town” or it will be what it was before the turn of the millennium.
All the kudos in the world to the people that are making all this money from all the gambling locals. I just think it is really sad for those who come here with a dream and the dream is dead within 3 years. I say shame on the companies and corporations that look to hire and exploit the 20’s generation of today. Some of my greatest memories of Las Vegas were in my very early 20’s and the old man at the bar made me think with his wisdom, smile with his sincerity and laugh with his advise that he gave only, when he was asked to give it.
Las Vegas is dieing like an average human. A lifespan of 80 to 100 years. It may well live to be one hundred and fifteen years old but it will have to be reborn again and will face the evolution that has always ruled mankind. Somebody will again rebuild Las Vegas, but not in our lifetime. When the beaches reach Las Vegas again it will thrive.
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February 11th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
what ever happened to the bullet train to socal?
in 25 years we will have flying cars, a mini ice age, a divorce rate of zero, second homes overlooking groom lake, and all casinos will give out free lap dances.
February 13th, 2008 at 12:35 am
In 25 years, I see so much growth on Las Vegas Blvd, that the entire Strip will become much like that of Fremont Street…a giant pedestrian walkway allowing only foot traffic.
Along with that growth, I think we will see all or most of the megaresorts that were built in the 90’s (The Mirage, TI, Excalibur and others) imploded and replaced with more “City Center” and “Echelon Place” type properties.
I also see the cost of living here sky-rocketing, making it harder for the local middle-class to get by, possibly even see more and more locals and casino workers commuting to the city for work from places like Mesquite, Pahrump, Boulder City, Primm. The Hoover Dam bypass will allow a faster commute from Kingman, which could also see an influx of former “Vegans.”
I also think Mayor Oscar Goodman will finally get his wish and we will have our own sports team, probably Hockey or Basketball.
February 13th, 2008 at 1:16 am
People will come, just to see Vegas, but they have to quit ripping off the goose that laid the golden egg. I’ve only been here 15 years, but have seen a drastic reducion in paybacks on machines. Break up the Mega strip owners, one owner to a property, MGM is the worst, I’d rather play machines at the airport then at any of their properties.
There’s no lack of water, just lack of brains. Lake Meade would be full but for the fact the electric company is too busy running the water through its turbines & selling the power to So. Cal for a huge profit.
Its time to wake up, or back to being a dust bowl.
February 13th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
I love Las Vegas,i believe expansion is good but,we need to preserve areas for the desert wildlife and plants
February 14th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Re: #8
“Wildlife and plants”? That is absurd. Las Vegas is literally a dot in the middle of the desert. It’s a very small valley that was created by a gangster that was out of his mind and was killed for his idea.
The only thing in Las Vegas that is going to survive is “The Strip” and the surrounding 3 miles. The rest will wither and die.
Tourism is the life blood of the Las Vegas Valley and it is ending there. People should stop coming here from the mid-west to work and live. STOP! Pack your things and go home to your hillbilly ways.
The influx of people from the east of Nevada are increasing the demise of the 500,000 people needed in Las Vegas to keep it alive.
It’s almost as if they have invaded a small island and have increased the cost of living to benefit only the politicians and the corporate conglomerates.
February 15th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
For those who want to stop people from moving to L.V. Have you come up with any ideas?Because as long as there are new housing projects.There will be new people moving to Las Vegas.Good or Bad that’s the way it is.It’s like trying to stop the railroad