A Native American casino in Las Vegas?

A consortium of Indian tribes including the Muckleshoots and Shoshone-Bannock are hatching a lofty plan for a casino called Ellis Las Vegas, run by Ellis Gaming.

Spread across 70 acres on the south Strip, the hotel-casino is expected to have 9,000 rooms over one large hotel and 5 smaller boutique hotels. Plans also include an indoor stadium, a sports and water park, an indoor ski resort, recording studio, Native American museum to rival the Smithsonian, and climate-controlled, Beverly Hills-like shopping.

And Beverly Hills-like tastes, too, as the mixed-use complex will also include a plastic surgery center.

While we have doubts a project this scope and size can get made in our time of foreclosures (not to mention riling the feathers of Las Vegas casinos that already are competing with Native American casinos not in their backyard), a casino like this would spectacularly and definitively make the connection between the Silverton side of Las Vegas Blvd. and the Las Vegas Strip.

See the below link for a 3D model of what Ellis Las Vegas is to look like.