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Demolition of the Queen of Hearts
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Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010 | 7:37 p.m.
An excavator tore apart the Queen of Hearts Hotel and Casino Tuesday to make way for a new eight-story city hall. The $146.2 million building will be part of a five-block mixed-use development that Mayor Goodman says will revitalize downtown with 13,000 new jobs and $4 billion in new investments. The Queen of Hearts was built in 1963 and was infamous for its crime-ridden past, including drugs and prostitution.
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Man, I just hope they can get rid of that persistent odor that seems to start outside the Fremont Experience, and heads down to the El Cortez. I mean, if I want to be in a dump, I'll drive to Tijuana.
Although there may be more bums in LV than Mexico. What a country...