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| - This place is really the direction that I hope Las Vegas is heading. This is the South-Strip big brother of the Downtown Container Park. Shamelessly more tourist- and chain-centric than Container Park, but awesome in its own right. The adultness of the retailers is obvious, but not so overbearing that you do not feel awkward taking your kids here (during the day and early evening). In fact, they will love it.
Brooklyn Bowl positively rules. If you could take House Of Blues, combine it with a bowling alley, and throw in some great food, great bars, and cabana-like service, you might get the idea. We spent an hour-and-a-half here at 1pm with our kids and were treated like royalty. Seeing a show here is going to be ridiculous.
Squeeze took me a few minutes to figure out. I walked in the east door thinking, "Oh, a candy shop." I saw a wall of various drink vessels, some quite large on the west wall. When I walked up and realized I was in a candy shop surrounded by a wall of self-serve margarita machines, it was an 'ah-ha' moment. Like a Roald Dahl book infused with ethanol. Pretty cool.
There are a lot of restaurants and retailers here that I only walked by, but it looks like a step in the right direction. Yes, I have been to The Grove and other similar, established places - but for Las Vegas? This is good stuff. Don't compare, just enjoy.
Vegas, I like where you have been and I really like where you are going. Lets keep mixing the two together and see what happens.
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