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When Raj Patel’s family took charge of a Fremont Street motel 15 years ago, he said, the downtown corridor had no shortage of homeless people, prostitutes, drug addicts and dealers, and vacant buildings.
It happens here too often: A favorite restaurant, shop or venue closes, or a cherished event goes dark, and the folks behind it console us with, “We’ll be back in a few months/in a new location/with a new name.
Las Vegas is rife with hotels touting themselves as “boutiques,” but it’s hard to take that mantle seriously when said “boutique” is attached to a 4,000-room mega-resort and its in-house dining is a celebrity chef-helmed restaurant.