MUSIC INDUSTRY: Miles from the Strip Visions of Upscale Living Dim

Reporting from Henderson, Nev.-- At the time, it probably sounded like a can't-miss pitch: Sunset-colored palaces. Three golf courses. Boutiques selling hand- painted silk gowns. A Ritz-Carlton. And a lake! A 2-mile-long desert lake, with marinas, an ice rink and a floating concert stage. Few plans embodied the hubris of Nevada's go-go years like Lake Las Vegas, the wannabe Tuscan village launched two decades ago 17 miles from the Las Vegas Strip. Over the years, Michael Jackson dodged papar...

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