{"id":8488,"date":"2014-07-28T09:33:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T16:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=8488"},"modified":"2019-07-06T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T01:37:10","slug":"annual-changing-sign-happening-westgate-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/annual-changing-sign-happening-westgate-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Changing of the Sign Is Happening at Westgate Las Vegas Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In what’s become a familiar ritual, the sign is again changing at the former Las Vegas Hotel (LVH), formerly the Las Vegas Hilton, formerly the International.<\/p>\n

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Oh, the signs they are a’changin’.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The hotel was recently purchased by Westgate Resorts, and the letters for the new Westgate sign are on-site, ready to be hoisted into place.<\/p>\n

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The LVH letters still haven’t left the building.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

True to the rendering released by Westgate, the new sign will have no fancy font, and the lettering is yellow.<\/p>\n

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It would be terrible if the installation guys screwed up and the new hotel was called “Mestgate,” wouldn’t it?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The sign will be illuminated by thousands of LED capsules. We have no idea if they’re called “capsules,” but “LED polyps” didn’t have quite the same ring to it.<\/p>\n

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Related: The LED Polyps would make a great band name.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Las Vegas Hotel was purchased for between $150 million and $170 million.<\/p>\n

Westgate, of course, is the timeshare company, although the new resort is expected to be a mix of timeshares and traditional hotel-casino offerings.<\/p>\n

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The aforementioned rendering. Not a whole lot of Vegas flair happening as far as we can see.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The wacky owner<\/a> of Westgate, David Siegel, is a controversial figure. His financial ups and downs were chronicled in the documentary, “The Queen of Versailles.”<\/p>\n

Siegel says he’ll invest a substantial amount to renovate the Westgate Las Vegas. He’s said the renovations will include the addition of a dayclub and nightclub (presumably because of the scarcity of those in Las Vegas), converting the hotel’s Shimmer Cabaret with a lounge and changing the Tempo Lounge over to a high-limit gaming area.<\/p>\n

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Yes, we breached security to get these photos. Next time, we’re risking arrest for something cooler.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If the letters of the new Westgate sign look familiar, that’s because they were salvaged from another project in Las Vegas, the PH Towers Westgate (see below).<\/p>\n

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David Siegel lost PH Towers Westgate in a foreclosure. Which, we’re thinking, bodes well for Westgate Las Vegas, at least in Bizarro Rich Guy World.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here are more photos for the Las Vegas sign nerds, among whom this blog counts itself.<\/p>\n