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GREGG GIUFFRIA
Thanx to Colleen Bracken For The 3rd Photo From The Top. Taken at the San Diego Sports Arena On May 7, 1978.
I RAN ACROSS THIS A FEW MONTHS AGO AND JUST KNEW YOU'D ENJOY IT
COURTESY OF MELODIC ROCK
NOVEMBER 26:2000
GREGG GIUFFRIA - MR. VEGAS:
NOVEMBER 26:2000 |
After yesturday's Gregg Giuffria report, another site regular did a little fishing around and found this little gem. I just had to share it with you! Here is Mr. Vegas himself in a recent publicity shot. Thanks to Bill.
GREGG GIUFFRIA MOVES
INTO VEGAS ELITE:
Thanks to Steve for sending me this press release from the Las Vegas Sun
Newspaper.
To answer his question - yes it is the keyboard playing / songwriting Gregg
Giuffria we all know. The below describes Giuffria in what is commonly know
as one's 'day gig'!
A Las Vegas company is putting together plans to build "Voyager" --
which it calls the world's largest Ferris wheel - somewhere on the south end of
the Strip.
Outland Development LLC has contracted with Premier Rides of
Millersville, Md., to build the $40 million, 518-foot ride. Outland
executives hope to open the attraction in mid-2002.
"We want to be the eighth wonder of the world," said Gregg
Giuffria, president and chief executive of Outland.The attraction,
being billed as an "observation wheel," would have 35 enclosed,
air-conditioned observation booths, each capable of holding 16 people for a
24-minute ride. At 518 feet, the wheel would be taller than anything in Las
Vegas except the Stratosphere tower - and 68 feet taller than the "London
Eye," currently the world's largest Ferris wheel. Premier Rides, the
designer and manufacturer of the ride, is the developer of "Speed,"
the 70 mph roller coaster located at the Sahara hotel-casino.
Giuffria said financing has been lined up for the project, though the
company is still finalizing agreements with equity and debt investors. Also yet
to be finalized is the location of the ride, but Giuffria said Outland has
narrowed the search to several south Strip sites. Once both are in place,
construction could begin, possibly by the middle of next year. Outland is a
venture between Giuffria, former chief executive of Las Vegas-based Full
House Resorts Inc., architect Veldon Simpson and Richard Hannigan, president
of Las Vegas-based design and construction firm Synthetic Systems Inc.
Simpson is the designer of a number of noted Las Vegas Strip casinos, including
the MGM Grand, Luxor and Excalibur. As president of Full House, Giuffria oversaw
the company's efforts to build a $300 million Hard Rock hotel-casino in Biloxi,
Miss. - efforts which have been under way since 1998, but have yet to
materialize.
Full House also operates slot operations at a racetrack in Delaware, and
developed an Indian casino in Oregon. Giuffria left the company in July. At one
time, Giuffria also owned the rights to "Telnaes," a slot machine
patent that allowed traditional reel slot machines to produce millions of
different symbol combinations - the key to developing slots with huge jackpots
such as "Megabucks." Giuffria sold the patent to Casino Data Systems
and became CDS' vice president of corporate development; from this position, he
helped negotiate the sale of the Telnaes patent to International Game
Technology.
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