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Davis purchased an 8% interest in the casino and became the first Black person to own a share in a major Las Vegas Strip hotel. Mel Tormé and Eddie Fisher performed at the Tropicana.
In 2007, El Ad Properties purchased the New Frontier Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The company owned the Plaza Hotel in New York City, and announced plans to build a Las Vegas version on the Frontier property. [34] [57] [58] The resort would cost at least $5 billion, [59] [60] and include a 175,900 sq ft (16,340 m 2) casino. The ...
In the late 1990s, New York-New York won various accolades from the Las Vegas Review-Journal in its annual "Best of Las Vegas" awards. These included best Strip hotel and best hotel architecture (1997), [77] [78] best Las Vegas Architecture (1998), [79] and coolest building in Las Vegas and best hotel theme (1999).
Behind the scenes of the casino’s opening, the Tropicana had ties to the mob, largely through reputed mobster Frank Costello, according to Sin City historian Michael Green, who also serves on the board of The Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas. Weeks after the Tropicana debuted, Costello was shot in the head in New York.
The Tropicana Las Vegas is officially no more. On Wednesday, Oct. 9, the iconic building, which first opened on April 4, 1957, was imploded ahead of the construction of a new baseball stadium.
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