{"id":8738,"date":"2015-03-12T16:10:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T16:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2015\/03\/12\/las-vegas-the-riviera-hotel-casino-officially-announced-wednesday-it-will-close-may-4-at-noon\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T16:10:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T16:10:24","slug":"las-vegas-the-riviera-hotel-casino-officially-announced-wednesday-it-will-close-may-4-at-noon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2015\/03\/12\/las-vegas-the-riviera-hotel-casino-officially-announced-wednesday-it-will-close-may-4-at-noon\/","title":{"rendered":"(Las Vegas) The Riviera hotel-casino officially announced Wednesday it will close May 4 at noon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nKristen Desilva, Las Vegas Review-Journal \u00b7<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Riviera hotel-casino officially announced Wednesday it will close May 4 at noon, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe announcement comes shortly after the historic Las Vegas landmark was sold to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority for up to $191 million in February.<\/p>\n<p>\tAn estimated 1,000 employees will be layed off with the closure.<\/p>\n<p>\t\u201cWe greatly appreciate the expressions of fondness and loyalty for \u2018The Riv\u2019 from our guests since ground first broke in 1954 and through the years. More importantly we want to acknowledge and applaud our associates who have worked to create enduring memories for all of our guests,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\u201cThis is what will be remembered long after the walls have come down. We look forward to making the coming weeks fun, exciting and memorable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Riviera will celebrate its 60th anniversary on April 20.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Mr Finesse on March 13, 2015, 12:57 pm<\/p>\n<div>Another classic casino bits the Dust.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen Desilva, Las Vegas Review-Journal \u00b7 The Riviera hotel-casino officially announced Wednesday it will close May 4 at noon, according to a news release. The announcement comes shortly after the historic Las Vegas landmark was sold to the Las Vegas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}