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SkyVue, the beleaguered company building an observation wheel at the south end of the Las Vegas Strip, is hoping to silence critics with the announcement of an expansion to its ambitious project. SkyVue officials have announced it has removed scaffolding at its observation wheel site to make way for a new attraction, the world’s first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,30,8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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