I just found this.
Somehow we got caught up in reading Robin Leach's Luxe Life Vegas blog the other day. Normally, we would chide ourselves for breaking our 2008 resolution of not being so celeb-obsessed but this bit of ADD internet surfing actually paid off.
A post from the end of December details some enormous Vegas project that's happening behind the strip.
Over 60-acres of land stretching down Harmon between the Planet Hollywood resort and condo towers to the Hard Rock hotel has been packaged together by the Africa-Israel Investment Bank, which is controlled by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev.
Several boutique hotels are planned for this parcel, so says Robin. Giuseppee Cipriani will plan a boutique hotel and
the planned Elvis Presley-themed hotel should pop up here.


Just to let you guys know where it will go, the aerial I have copied off of Google Earth shows the proposed location that the new EP hotel and casino will be built. It will be right across the street from the new
City Centre where
Cirque Du Soleil Elvis show will be home to. The area in red is the newly purchased land by FXLR, Bob Sillerman's real estate company and where Leach says the hotel will go. This is the perfect location for an EP themed hotel and resort in the heart of the new Vegas, next door to the famous
MGM Grand!
