OPINION: Junk mandatory resort fees

Sunday, March 12, 2023 5:05 PM
  • David Colborne, The Nevada Independent

It’s not very often I provide free advertising, but my friendly neighborhood arcology could apparently use it.

The Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks has a problem — OK, it has more than one problem, but both the beleaguered editors of The Nevada Independent and you, our plucky reader, would prefer me to keep under a Russian novel-length word count for my weekly columns, so let’s focus on one problem for now.

The soon-to-be buyers of the Nugget want to be reassured that the property and resort they’re buying will return enough value to their pocketbooks — which are hopefully not deposited at Silicon Valley Bank — to make the purchase worthwhile.