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W Hotels to open Las Vegas resort
LAS VEGAS Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. intends to expand dramatically in Las Vegas, bringing its hip and urban W brand to one of the most competitive and coveted markets in the leisure industry.
Starwood is joining Edge Resorts, a group of private investors, in a $1.7 billion project that will involve a mix of approximately 3,000 hotel and residential units and a 75,000-square-foot casino, along with 300,000 square feet of meeting space and shops. It's slated to open in 2008.
Edge Resorts will control 75percent of the project. Starwood, W's parent company, will own the remainder and manage the W Las Vegas hotel.
The project will sit on 21 acres located just east of the Las Vegas Strip, near the popular Hard Rock hotel-casino.
"The other properties will orbit around us," said Ross Klein, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for W Hotels Worldwide.
Klein said he has been trying to bring one of the sleek and modern hotels to Las Vegas since the launching of the first W in late 1998. Klein said W customers have been clamoring for one in Las Vegas, but he could never find the perfect location, partner, timing and scale.
With Las Vegas gambling companies still churning out hefty profits, Klein said the market is "still red hot and white hot for innovation. W Las Vegas will definitely be a laboratory for a lot of what we are doing."
Klein said he expects the new resort to compete with Hard Rock, Mandalay Bay, the Palms, Wynn Las Vegas and Four Seasons.
Deutsche Bank analyst Marc Falcone said it is important for W to finally land in Las Vegas.
"I think W needs exposure in Vegas given what the brand stands for," he said.
Edge Resorts President Adam Frank said he isn't concerned about the glut of Condo Hotel projects slated to be built in Las Vegas.
"The W brand is obviously one of the strongest names in the hospitality business," he said. "The Vegas buyer of condos has become more savvy."
New York-based Starwood, one of the biggest hotel operators in the world, is also part of a group of investors that bought the Aladdin megaresort on the Strip. It also owns the Westin Casuarina in Las Vegas.
Starwood shares rose 50 cents to close at $60.35 in trading on the New York Stock Exchange
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