 Mandalay Resort Group, owners of the Circus Circus resort, publicly protested the road realignment in April 2002, stating that it would disrupt traffic flow into the resort's parking lot.A decision on the land swap was postponed in May 2002, due to the objections raised by Mandalay Resort Group.In December 2002, Kaempfer said that the county no longer needed or wanted the road realignment, and that there was no desire to swap the Algiers land if the county did not plan to proceed with the road project.