The bank claims it wants its new casino, The Cosmpolitan, to be a success and yet…

When Deutsche took the project over, fewer than eight of the building’s 50 stories were built. The development manager the bank brought in, Related Cos., took a look at the plans and recommended huge revisions. Deutsche quickly junked some of Mr. Eichner’s concepts for the building’s interior, which included rooms with leopard-skin wallpaper and an entry hall featuring 28-foot robots programmed to box, dance and play 12-foot Stratocaster guitars.

Comments (20)

  1. Posted by Dave_einhorn | November 17, 2010 at 4:53 PM

    they can kiss this guy’s business good-bye.

    -guy who needs a 28 foot robot to gamble

  2. Posted by Color_blind | November 17, 2010 at 5:14 PM

    Hey Deutsche, give me a call. I could really “dress up” the place.

    – Lisa Falcone

  3. Posted by Covey 01 | November 17, 2010 at 5:20 PM

    DB should stick to investment banking and forget interior decorating. Germans are great at engineering, but suck when it comes to taste. Big and massive works for them.

  4. Posted by PasteSpecialFormats | November 17, 2010 at 5:22 PM

    Class. I has it.

    - Mr. Eichner

  5. Posted by Moe Greene | November 17, 2010 at 5:22 PM

    You goddamn guineas, you really make me laugh. In your business you take the opposite side of the trade of your client in a structured product where you create the payoff, and you can’t successfully run a casino?

  6. Posted by indridcold | November 17, 2010 at 5:27 PM

    those bots are still there. look more closely at that roulette table.

  7. Posted by Homosaurus | November 17, 2010 at 5:29 PM

    The were just munsoned.

  8. Posted by car service | November 17, 2010 at 5:32 PM

    I don’t understand what Deutsche’s problem is with using those out of work robo signers for good instead of evil.

  9. Posted by Ace Rothstein | November 17, 2010 at 5:34 PM

    Ace Rothstein: [voice-over] “Eichner’s methods of decoratinging weren’t scientific, but they worked. When they worked, he collected. When they didn’t, he told the stagers and designers to go fuck themselves. I mean, what were they going to do, muscle Eichner? Eichner was the muscle.”

  10. Posted by Shallow Thinker | November 17, 2010 at 5:34 PM

    Mine too.

    - Guy more interested in the guitars.

  11. Posted by OhCanada | November 17, 2010 at 5:41 PM

    Hey Commentariat: If any of you find a black travel bag with some “sensitive” economic documents in it, how aboot giving me a shout-out, eh? TIA, eh?…

    -Mark Carney
    Montreal

  12. Posted by Shangri-la | November 17, 2010 at 5:54 PM

    Wait, there it is. Blended in, at a subsonic level, like some kind of mantra: pain, pain, pain.

  13. Posted by ahahah | November 17, 2010 at 6:16 PM

    Must have swept the FF&E reserves…

  14. Posted by Safari Camo | November 17, 2010 at 6:42 PM

    Count me out as well.

    -Guy who likes his g-strings to match the walls.

  15. Posted by Herr Kraut | November 17, 2010 at 7:57 PM

    Guineas?

  16. Posted by Safari Camo | November 17, 2010 at 8:23 PM

    You know, those people from Guinea; not to be confused with New Guinea.

  17. Posted by Duder | November 17, 2010 at 8:27 PM

    Moe Greene is a character in The Godfather, and that first line of the comment is from the film.

  18. Posted by Bismarck | November 17, 2010 at 8:51 PM

    Volker Rule

  19. Posted by Guest | November 18, 2010 at 1:59 AM

    I don’t think it’s a mistake on Deutsche’s part. Where else is Deutsche going to find a home for their prop traders?

  20. Posted by Guest | November 20, 2010 at 5:40 PM

    Sorry about the late comment, but I just took a tour or this place and it is sexy as hell. They are going to do just fine. Well, not “just fine” as in produce a decent ROI, but “just fine” as not lose as much money as MGM does with CityCenter right next door. Any 25-35 year old banker visiting Vegas will want to stay here.

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