Because this class studies two very dynamic cities which are constantly changing, the class itself varies each year. We come to Vegas and LA in 2010 two years after a real estate bubble burst and financial meltdown. Vegas has been particularly hard-hit, with over 10% of homes in default on their mortgage, a gigantic 8 Billion dollar casino-hotel-condo project in the center of the strip (City Center) which has neared bankruptcy on several occassions, dramatically affected its parent company MGM's stock and which currently has sold 100 of its 2500 condos. LA (which is in reality a conglomeration of 88 smaller towns and cities attached to an LA downtown) sits in a state with a fantastically huge budget deficit, serious immigration issues, and a significant exiting of US citizens to other states. Yet Vegas continues to be an icon for American hope and adventurous living, and LA continues to be a dynamic center of American creativity and ingenuity.
Schedule for the Course 2010:
May 16th Arrive in Vegas by air. Gustafson picks you up at airport, or you take shuttle to South Point Casino. (We will be at the South Point Sunday-Thursday)
mMay 17 10am Ron Smith
230 Harrahs
tMay 18 Las Vegas
930 AM Mayor Oscar Goodman
11am Venetian
3pm World Market Building C Andrew Maiden 888 416 8600
wMay 19 Las Vegas
Bank in Suburbs 9am
Redrock Casino11am
John Obrien (Creighton Alum) 7pm
thMay 20 Las Vegas 9am Zappos
Wynn and Encore Chris 12-2
fMay 21 Hoover
Boulder City Mayor of Boulder City
Solar 1
Joshua Tree Park (camping)
sMay 22 Los Angeles (Anaheim/downtown)
Palm Desert
Disneyland
Stay At Anaheim Plaza Hotel by Disneyland
sMay 23 Los Angeles
Downtown Cathedral/Homeboy
Travel to coast, go via Malibu to Ventura
(Stay in Ventura in Beach Hotel—visit blueberry farm)
mMay 24 Ventura-LA
845 am Patagonia, Elissa Loughman
10am Rick Cole City Manager, Ventura
1pm Kent Smith, Fashion District downtown LA
2pm Los Angeles—American Apparel
Stay at Motel 6 in Hollywood. (Check out Hollywood Strip that night)
tMay 25 Los Angeles (Hollywood)
11am Visit: The Outfit Visual Effects1612 W. Olive Ave. Suite 302 Burbank
office phone: 818-237-5052 cell: 818-644-0783
3-4 DownTown L.A. w/Hal 626 Wilshire Blvd Suite 200 (hope/Wilshire)
4:30 Chamber of Commerce
Stay Downtown LA hotel.
wMay 26
LA Live
Guess?
Go to Las Vegas
Th May 27 Las Vegas
Friday May 28 Las Vegas
Sat Go home!