crisis in america, why was the private-money thing so important to aeg and mgm? >> it's really important to us because we don't want to go to the community and ask for funds. we have a $375 million g.m.p., or guaranteed maximum price. we're gonna fully fund that. we project 100 events in year 1. so, out of those events -- 50 concerts, 25 sporting events, 15 boxing/ufc, 5 award shows, like billboard music awards. we can eventually get that return on investment by bringing in those high-profile events, but we didn't want to ask for public money, and we feel that we're better served and so is the community. >> in fact, arenas like this have been planned for years in las vegas, but they usually wanted some sort of public subsidy to help pay the bills. >> that's the reason why the other projects really never got off the ground. it's very complicated to get public money and get taxing authority in order to make those things happen. we built the grand garden arena and mandalay bay events center with private funds, and we're very, very adamant about the fact that if you're gonna build