STRIP PROPERTIES: Aladdin gets payment extension

Property representatives seek overhaul of financial requirements

By DAVE BERNS
lasvegas.com GAMING WIRE

Friday, June 08, 2001
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
The owners of the Aladdin were granted an extension through Tuesday on the payment of $8.7 million to close a financial shortfall in the Strip megaresort's operations, a knowledgeable source said Thursday.

Representatives of the Sommer Family Trust and London Clubs International have been talking with their bankers about pushing that extension through July 31 and hope to point to improving profits as they seek an overhaul of the payment requirements, the source said.

"This whole thing is viewed as a very positive move because it indicates that people are seeing light at the end of the tunnel," the source said. "The banks would not have done it if there was a continued air of negativity."

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