LAS VEGAS -- Your pool: Five feet of lukewarm water and floating dead bugs. Their pool: A two-acre oasis of chilled liquid and heavenly bodies all around. Really, who needs a room key?

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2006--Last fall, prominent national developer Jim Noteware of Houston-based NOTEWARE Development partnered with K&S Mesa Verde, LLC, an entity controlled by Edward Kalikow of the Kalikow Group and Eugene Shalik of Shalik Realty Ventures, both New York-based private equity firms specializing in real estate development, to purchase 10 acres of prime real estate one block east of the Las Vegas South Strip.

Casino operator Boyd Gaming Corp. on Tuesday said it planned to close its Stardust Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on Nov. 1 to make way for its planned $4 billion Echelon Place project.

Las Vegas bills itself as "the wedding capital of the world," but late-night revelers who decide they want to tie the knot now must wait until morning.

More than 3,000 surface professionals attended this year’s Surface Fabrication & Design Expo, which showcased the latest in materials, tools and equipment for fabricators, most of whom have direct ties to the kitchen and bath industry.