They bought it so nobody could build a competing casino or hotel across the street.
]]>Using the Measure Distance tool on Bing Maps, this Las Vegas appears to be about 2,000 feet (615 meters) from the runway.
There are multiple high rise hotels right next to LAX in Los Angeles. The distance from some of those to the nearest runway is about 2,100 feet (650 meters).
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]]>That’s interesting, as I hadn’t thought about the folks who like watching aircraft take off and land. Seems a small niche, and hard to imagine people would make a hotel decision based upon that, but valid.
]]>Isn’t pretty much everything “upwards of a dozen feet from the airport”?
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