{"id":98881200,"date":"2011-03-11T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/oldest-hotel-casino-on-the-vegas-strip-set-to-close-may-16\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T07:35:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:35:26","slug":"oldest-hotel-casino-on-the-vegas-strip-set-to-close-may-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/oldest-hotel-casino-on-the-vegas-strip-set-to-close-may-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest Hotel &#038; Casino on the Vegas Strip Set to Close May 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sahara, the Las Vegas Strip\u2019s oldest hotel and casino, will close its doors on May 16. Plans to redevelop the property fell through following Vegas\u2019 recent economic downturn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Owners SBE Entertainment Group and Stockbridge Real Estate Funds say continuing operations at the aging resort was no longer economically viable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of options remain on the table for the property going forward, including a complete renovation and repositioning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sahara is now working with MGM Resorts to find rooms for those who have already booked past the May 16 closing date.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pair will also work to find jobs for affected Sahara employees at ten MGM properties in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Sahara was first built in 1952 and was featured in the original \u201cOcean\u2019s Eleven\u201d film in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-11\/sahara-hotel-casino-oldest-on-las-vegas-strip-will-close-amid-downturn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Bloomberg <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sahara, the Las Vegas Strip\u2019s oldest hotel and casino, will close its doors on May 16. Plans to redevelop the property fell through following Vegas\u2019 recent economic downturn. &nbsp; Owners SBE Entertainment Group and Stockbridge Real Estate Funds say continuing operations at the aging resort was no longer economically viable. &nbsp; Plenty of options [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897729,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881200\/revisions\/98897729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}