谢尔登.埃德森回到新加坡滨海湾金沙赌场

　　我们将迎来谢尔登埃德森来到新加坡和新加坡的滨海湾金沙！谢尔登.埃德森经历过比任何人都惨烈的信贷紧缩，最新估计数字超过$ 35亿美元，他的新的巨型赌场和娱乐城将在新加坡复杂的海岛城市滨海湾金沙开幕。

　　他将在那寻找马六甲海峡殖民地的贸易路线，天空公园占地1.2公顷，位于55层高的塔楼。阿德尔森评论自己：“我已经做了，并超过一以往的，它的海洋宽度最好。

　　这些数字是可怕的，成本5.7美元，这是近百万平方米大，它投注记录也已经被拉动。滨海湾金沙是阿德尔森最大的单体酒店和公司，在拉斯维加斯金沙集团的赌场，拥有2600间客房，600个赌场，1500台角子机，2个剧院，艺术价值美元US50m，300家店铺，博物馆，艺术画廊和一个可容纳45,000人的会议中心。

　　天空公园，花园，一个游泳池和一个餐厅，似乎都浮在半空中。阿德尔森以惊人的速度建设酒店，赌场和在美洲和亚洲的会展中心。他保持建立的模型属性，卖掉赌场的零售空间以还清贷款。他曾是这个星球上的第六首富，身价为惊人的40万亿美元。只在一个股点上，他每天就有20美元以上。

　　但随后，他被迫开始惊人的赔钱速度。金沙公司的股份像一块石头从150美元左右下跌到1美元，抹去了阿德尔森大部分的财富。

　　他的赌场，他的公司需要进行贷款以及出售投资股本，以防止更大损失。他淡化他的股份，从70％到约50％，还从银行和其他投资者中保持局势控制。

　　但事情再次波动。新加坡政府就站在他身后，新加坡政府试图为他的赌场引导更多游客和玩家。

　　新加坡的部长们希望能一年吸引游客1700万人次，期望旅游收入达360亿美元，到2015年，国内生产总值能提高1.6％。

　　译文：

　　Right- we are off to Singapore and the new Marina Bay Sands! Sheldon Adelson- the casino magnate who burned through more cash than anyone else in the Credit Crunch （over $US35 billion on the latest estimates） is looking pretty again following the opening of his new HUGE gambling and entertainment complex in the Island city state of Singapore: The Marina Bay Sands.

　　Looking over the old colonial trading route of the Straits of Malacca, the 1.2 hectare Sky Park sits ontop of 3 55-storey towers. As Adelson comments himself: “This surpasses anything I’ve done. It’s the best by the width of an ocean.”

　　The numbers are scary. It cost $US 5.7bn, It?s nearly a million sq metres big and its already pulling in record punters. The Marina Bay Sands is Adelson?s biggest single hotel and casino bet by his company, the Las Vegas Sands Corporation and boasts 2600 rooms, a 600-table casino, 1500 slot machines, 2 theatres, art worth $US50m, 300 shops , a museum, an art gallery and a convention centre for up to 45,000 delegates. Phew… And you thought the casinos in Macau were out of this world.

　　The Sky Park has gardens, a pool and a restaurant that seem to float in mid-air. Adelson hoovered up cash faster than anyone in history by building hotels, casinos and convention centres in America and Asia. His model was to build the properties, keep the casinos and sell off the retail space to pay off the loans. And things were going well until the Credit Crunch when the wheels almost fell off his model. He was at one time the 6-richest man on the planet, worth a staggering $US 40billion. At one point he was making over $US20 a day.

　　But then he started losing money faster than anyone else as well. Shares in the Sands Corporation droppped like a stone from around $150 to $1, wiping out most of Adelson’s wealth. At one stage, he was bleeding around $100m a day – que pobre!.

　　He had to shore up his company with $1bn of his own cash in loans and equity sales to prevent it going belly up. And he had to water down his stake from 70 per cent to about 50 per cent, just keeping control from the banks and other investors.

　　But things are again looking up. The Singapore Govt. is right behind him as they try and lure more tourists into the city and to get rid of its prim and proper “no chewing gum here” reputation.

　　As well as the new Marina Bay Sands, the City State has another casino licenced and is also on the F1 circuit. Ministers are hoping to attract 17 million visitors a year and triple tourism revenue to $36bn by 2015, raising GDP by 1.6 per cent.