Government could purchase hotel-casino land - 2004-02-17
If the federal government gets their way, they will purchase and close a hotel-casino close to Hoover Dam with money earmarked for the purchase of environmentally sensitive properties. The owners are hinting that they'll be willing to sell.
The hotel-casino is on the BLM's proposed list for lands to be bought with money generated by the auction of federal land around Las Vegas. The list includes roughly 37,900 acres valued at exactly $94.4 million, mostly in the northern part of Nevada.
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