Las Vegas hotelier eyes luxury lodge opportunity near Queenstown - 2004-02-16
A former Las Vegas hotelier and casino owner is proposing an exclusive luxury lodge at Gibbston Valley, complete with a salmon stocked pond for fishing lovers.
Las Vegas businessman Phil Griffith, who has a large stake in both Queenstown's Wharf Casino and the award-winning Gibbston Valley Winery, will fly high-profile American architects out from New Orleans next month to look at the site.
Mr Griffith's Queenstown business partner in two Queenstown ventures, Mike Stone, yesterday said the lodge, neighbouring Gibbston Valley on former Glenroy Station land 27km east of Queenstown, would be "of a similar market and style to Blanket Bay and Matakauri lodge."
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