That's the prediction of Phil Ruffin, the man who sold atear-down on 35 acres there for $1.2 billion in 2007 and this pastspring paid $775 million for Treasure Island. Ruffin, who also ownsa piece of He the Trump International Tower here, made hisprediction in an article he penned himself for the Las Vegas Sunthat was published earlier this week.

By 2020, he says, the traffic count at the airport will be 45-to 50 million, thanks in part to an increase in foreign visitorsand the market will have absorbed the 21,000 rooms that were addedbetween January 2008 and January 2011--plus thousands more becausethe projects stalled during construction also will be completed, aswill a couple of ones that were planned but never started. Roomrates also will be much higher, he says.

"I figure the Strip is going to continue to be the place in LasVegas, and there's only one Las Vegas, so people from around theworld will continue to come here," he wrote. "Fontainebleau will beopen and operating as will Echelon. Somebody will develop theproperty I used to own, the Frontier site, either the current owneror somebody else because the location is just too good to staydormant. MGM Mirage and Sol Kerzner had a magnificent plan for ajoint venture on 40 acres at Sahara and Las Vegas Boulevard. Ithink a major resort will be on that site in 10 years."