A new and brighter $2 million sign is shining outside the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, replacing the former Reno Hilton’s marquee and bringing what a casino official calls one of the largest signs of its kind in the world.
The first words on the marquee were “Happy Holidays” in two shades of blue on Thursday. [...]

When urban dwellers think of hotel-condos, they usually imagine sky-high city apartments with daily maid service and mints on pillows.
In New York, perhaps, their fantasy would not be far from reality.
More often though, hotel-condos are proliferating into mid-size and smaller cities across the nation.
Hotel-condo projects can be found in different stages of development in cities [...]