missing "as"?

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Is grammar evolving, am I merely grammatically-challenged,
or does the following sentence need an "as" at the end?

"Hiddenbrooke, a development "inspired" by Thomas
Kinkade, ain't exactly ye olde quainte village it bills itself."

http://salon.com/mwt/style/2002/03/18/kinkade_village/print.html

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