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Closed Las Vegas Strip hotel gets new life, casino appears dead

Sometimes plans get shared for Las Vegas Strip resorts, casinos, restaurants, and retail stores that never actually come to be. It's challenging to build in Las Vegas - it is a desert that has few raw materials where the weather can be punishing - and many projects never get off the ground. In many cases, there are billion-dollar projects that kick…
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Closed Las Vegas Strip hotel gets new life, casino appears dead
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The (Mostly) New Slots A Fun

At long last, Slots A Fun on the north Strip next to (and owned by) Circus Circus has been modernized with new carpet, $2 blast-from-the-past offerings from the bar, a new table-game pit, and most noticeable of all, 75 vintage coin- (quarter) and token-($1)operated slots in 25-cent and $1 denominations. As for the small pit, four blackjack tables…
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Las Vegas has long history of never-built casinos, other big projects

Las Vegas is known around the world for its towering casino-resorts. But for all the massive projects that have been built in America's casino capital, there have also been many supersized ideas that never materialized. Here's a look at some never-built projects, from the Strip to the suburbs, as outlined in news reports, Clark County records and…
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Las Vegas has long history of never-built casinos, other big projects
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Can you guess the Las Vegas casino from its carpet?

A Las Vegas casino can be sensory overload with its flashy slots, cheering patrons and mixed smells of perfumes and smoking patrons. But the sensory overload often doesn't stop there. Right under a visitor's feet is often a pathway of busy patterns, sometimes with colorful art that connects to the casino's theme. UNLV gaming historian David…
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Can you guess the Las Vegas casino from its carpet?
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Former Fontainebleau president gets new gig at Station Casinos

The former president of the newest resort on the Strip has left the company. Mark Tricano, who led the Fontainebleau on the north Strip for about seven months, has taken a leadership role at locals casino operator Station Casinos as senior vice president of operations. "Mark is a talented casino executive who not only knows our company well, but…
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Former Fontainebleau president gets new gig at Station Casinos
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas names exec Maurice Wooden as new president

Fontainebleau Development, the parent company of the resort, named longtime Las Vegas hospitality executive Maurice Wooden as the north Strip property's new president, according to a Sunday news release. Wooden was previously Wynn Las Vegas' president and principal executive officer between 2013 and 2019 and a member of the Las Vegas Convention and…
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas names exec Maurice Wooden as new president
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The Wait Was Worth it for Fontainebleau Las Vegas

The opening of the 67-story, 3644-room Fontainebleau Las Vegas in December was the culmination of an incredibly long and winding financial road, stretching back to February 2007, when construction began - just in time for the Great Recession to put a halt to the unfinished project two years later. But after multiple ownership changes and…
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The Wait Was Worth it for Fontainebleau Las Vegas
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Another major Las Vegas Strip casino project at risk of cancellation

New hotel casino projects on the Las Vegas Strip can sometimes take more than a decade complete or even get underway. One marathon development on the Strip was the Fontainebleau Las Vegas hotel and casino. The Fontainebleau's development history began in 2007, but soon after that the Great Recession hit, forcing the project into bankruptcy and…
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Fontainebleau's Multi-Billion Dollar Vegas Gamble Looks Like a Bad Bet

LAS VEGAS - Whenever I tell people I live on the Las Vegas Strip, their eyes widen as they start asking me if I live near Caesars Palace, MGM Grand or the Bellagio. You know, places they've been to recently. Not exactly, I tell them. I live in a condominium on the north end of the Las Vegas Strip. That's usually followed by a confused look before I…
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Fontainebleau's Multi-Billion Dollar Vegas Gamble Looks Like a Bad Bet
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Las Vegas may have had it’s best year ever in 2023

It's hard to argue against the position that Las Vegas had its most successful year in its history in 2023. And what do you do after one successful run? Come back for more. That's what local gaming and tourism analysts figure will happen in 2024 after wrapping up a year filled with record gaming revenue and union contract signings, airport…
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Las Vegas may have had it’s best year ever in 2023
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Las Vegas Advisor: Fontainebleau resort opens in Las Vegas

Another week, another big opening in Las Vegas. Actually, it's rare for two major casinos to open in one month, but following the debut of Durango Casino on Dec. 5, the long- awaited Fontainebleau followed on Dec. 13. The massive $3.7 billion resort that's been in some stage of building (or just sitting) since 2007 started fast with a welcome bash…
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Las Vegas Advisor: Fontainebleau resort opens in Las Vegas
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When does Fontainebleau Las Vegas open?

The newest luxury resort-casino on the Strip will open its doors to the public just before midnight on Wednesday, officials announced Monday. Fontainebleau Las Vegas, the 67-story, blue-tinted tower on the north Strip that has been in development since the late 2000s, will welcome guests to the property after an invitation-only grand opening…
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas opens Wednesday. Here’s what it means

If you look hard enough, you can find bow ties in the most unusual places at the Fontainebleau. The new resort-casino's logo is on the carpets, in the shape of the wayfinding signs and repeating patterns in chandeliers, on drawer handles in rooms, on trash cans and in the shapes of sofas and banquet hall chairs. The bow ties are an homage to…
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas opens Wednesday. Here’s what it means
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Las Vegas Strip resort casino sets a bizarre record

The Las Vegas Strip specializes in larger-than-life excess. Casinos keep getting bigger and more over the top. It's not easy to get attention on the 4.2-mile stretch of road that's packed with everything from a volcano (at least for now), a Statue of Liberty, and an Eiffel Tower. The Strip has become an endless sea of big names using neon, special…
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas To Officially Open On December 13

After a timeline of 16 years since construction officially began, Fontainebleau Development, the initial developer of Fontainebleau Las Vegas, has finally received regulatory validation to officially open the Strip resort, an investment worth $3.7 billion. New gaming license: 4 hearings before Nevada gaming regulators and 4 validations, the…
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas To Officially Open On December 13
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Las Vegas Strip's Fashion Show Mall will add a casino

At only 4.2 square miles, the Las Vegas Strip has very little open room for development. That's even more true when you look at the south and central strips where Caesars and MGM have clustered their resort casino properties. The north Strip has some remaining open land, but it remains a question as to whether that area can become the draw that the…
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Las Vegas Strip's Fashion Show Mall will add a casino
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Las Vegas Advisor: Las Vegas still holds great, bargain-filled football parties

Football season means watch parties in the casinos and bars. While not nearly as big a marketing tool as they used to be, there are still some good gatherings throughout the city. On weekends the casino sports books are packed with all the games showing on big screens. Busiest are Las Vegas' two premier sports books at Circa and Westgate. For…
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Las Vegas Advisor: Las Vegas still holds great, bargain-filled football parties
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas sets opening date

The Fontainebleau Las Vegas set its opening date for Dec. 13, starting the countdown to the public's first chance to see the inside of a building that's been in the works for nearly two decades. The Wednesday opening, pending regulatory approvals, fulfills a decades-long dream for Fontainebleau Development CEO Jeffrey Soffer to open the property on…
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas sets opening date
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North Las Vegas Strip showing more signs of life; developers buy land for $125M

The north edge of the Strip was a bleak place a decade or so ago. Las Vegas' real estate meltdown left this stretch of the casino corridor with halted megaresort projects, sprawling land tracts where big developments never took shape, and little foot traffic. As a cigar shop owner there told me at the time, it was a "huge economic cemetery." The…
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North Las Vegas Strip showing more signs of life; developers buy land for $125M
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Developers look to north Las Vegas Strip for expansion

Developers Brett Torino and Paul Kanavos have teamed up to build retail projects in the heart of the Strip, bringing shopping and dining outposts to a section jammed with tourists. Now they're looking to expand to the northern edge of Las Vegas' famed casino corridor - a quieter area that's been seeing more action. The Las Vegas Convention and…
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Developers look to north Las Vegas Strip for expansion
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Las Vegas Food Hall Trend Fills a Niche

The Las Vegas hospitality sector's propensity for invention - and more importantly, reinvention - certainly helps to drive about 40 million annual visitors to the city. And the cutthroat competition on the Strip not only ensures a nonstop parade of new and upgraded accommodations, shows, and attractions; but it has also turned Sin City into a…
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Not every Las Vegas casino boss wants to sell, lease back resort

Selling a casino to a landlord for a mountain of cash sounds pretty tempting. There are also some big strings attached - and not every hotel boss in Las Vegas is interested right now. Executives with Station Casinos, Boyd Gaming Corp. and Fontainebleau Las Vegas recently touted the benefits of owning their properties or stated they aren't looking…
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Not every Las Vegas casino boss wants to sell, lease back resort
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Fontainebleau on Las Vegas Strip is biggest hotel project in U.S.

Towering over the north Strip, Fontainebleau Las Vegas has not only been in the works for a long time, it's by far the biggest hotel being built in the nation. But as a reminder of the intense competition here, several other casino-resorts on Las Vegas Boulevard can house more guests. Boasting 3000-plus rooms, the Fontainebleau is the largest…
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Fontainebleau on Las Vegas Strip is biggest hotel project in U.S.
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A’s get ‘full support’ from Las Vegas casinos

If the Oakland Athletics relocate to Las Vegas, north Strip and downtown resort operators would strongly support the team building a $1 billion ballpark in their area. Resorts World Las Vegas President Scott Sibella confirmed that he and hotel owners from the north Strip and downtown Las Vegas met with A's brass Wednesday. They discussed the…
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A’s get ‘full support’ from Las Vegas casinos
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Improbable Las Vegas Strip Casino Project Gets Good News

Not every idea planned or even announced for the Las Vegas Strip ends up getting built. Some never even get past the talking stage because it takes billions to actually build something on Sin City's iconic 4.2-mile stretch of road. The high price tag means that some projects get announced as a way to make it easier to raise money to actually build…
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Las Vegas Strip Gets a Dangerous Warning

Covid, M-Pox, RSV, and other illnesses could not keep the Las Vegas Strip Resort Casinos down, but a new development might be a major problem. While the covid pandemic closed the Las Vegas Strip, that closure almost seemed to create an opportunity for major resort casino operators to make changes. MGM Resorts International (MGM) - Get Free…
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Las Vegas Strip Gets a Dangerous Warning
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Las Vegas Strip Welcomes Back Two Major Headliners

On the Las Vegas Strip, some headliners find a home at a resort casino and stay there for an astonishingly long time. Comedic magicians Penn & Teller have been in residence at Caesars Entertainment's (COZIF) Rio since 2001. That makes them the Las Vegas act that kept the same home the longest, but they're not the only performers with a long history…
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Las Vegas Strip Welcomes Back Two Major Headliners
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas names president, CEO

Fontainebleau Las Vegas has a new boss. Brett Mufson, president of project developer Jeffrey Soffer's firm Fontainebleau Development, was named president and CEO of the towering north Strip resort. Mufson "will be responsible for leading the development of one of the largest construction projects in the United States," overseeing "every detail of…
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas names president, CEO
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas bankrolled by big casino landlords

Over the past few years, two firms have shelled out billions of dollars for casino real estate along the Strip. Now they are plowing a fortune into a long-planned resort with a tumultuous history: the Fontainebleau. Last month, developers of Fontainebleau Las Vegas announced they secured a $2.2 billion construction loan to finish the towering…
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas bankrolled by big casino landlords
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Big Las Vegas Strip Casino Deal Cancelled

Nothing happens quickly or easily on the Las Vegas Strip. If you decide to build or buy on the Strip, you have elected to compete with the giants of the casino business -- Caesars Entertainment (CZR) - Get Free Report, MGM Resorts International (MGM) - Get Free Report, and Wynn Resorts (WYNN) - Get Free Report -- not to mention some of the huge…
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Big Las Vegas Strip Casino Deal Cancelled
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Las Vegas’ top 10 real estate deals of 2022

Las Vegas' wheeler-dealer real estate market didn't disappoint in 2022. Here are the top 10 deals of the year, ranked by yours truly. Some blockbusters that closed in 2022, including the $5.65 billion sale of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, are not listed because they were announced in 2021 and were in that year's top 10. 1. Tilman Fertitta Houston…
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Las Vegas casino project gets $2.2 billion construction loan

The long dormant Fontainebleau building is shown during a ceremony to mark the commencement of development of the property at the north end of the Strip Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. Friday, Dec. 23, 2022 | 10 a.m. Developers of the Fontainebleau Las Vegas announced today they have secured a $2.2 billion loan to keep construction of the north Strip resort…
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Las Vegas casino project gets $2.2 billion construction loan
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Tilman Fertitta gets approval for new hotel-casino on Las Vegas Strip

Clark County commissioners gave billionaire Tilman Fertitta the green light on Wednesday to develop a towering hotel-casino on the Strip. The commission approved Fertitta's plans for a 43-story, 2420-room project in the tourist-choked casino corridor. The upscale resort, at the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Harmon Avenue, would…
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Mirage Closing, Caesars Flops: 2022’s Top Las Vegas Strip Stories

The Las Vegas Strip kicked off the year by hosting CES, the big tech conference long-known as the Consumer Electronics Show, which was expected to be somewhat close to normal after being virtual the year before. But it ended up as a shell of itself due to the Omicron variant of covid. Instead of Sin City's grand return, the event saw mostly empty…
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Huge Las Vegas Strip Casino Deal Falls Through

Real estate on the Las Vegas Strip has become incredibly valuable. Strips of land sell for tens of millions of dollars and any parcel big enough to host a casino goes for much more than that. Actual casinos sell for billions of dollars. MGM Resorts International MGM sold Mirage to Hard Rock International for $1 billion and paid $1.625 billion to…
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Las Vegas Strip Casinos Face Added Pressure to Ban a Popular Vice

Few people go to Las Vegas to have a nice, clean, healthy vacation where they pass on rich foods, alcohol, and other vices. In general, you book a Las Vegas Strip vacation (or business trip) to let your hair down a bit and indulge more than you do at home. The city has been dubbed "Sin City" because a Vegas vacation allows people to indulge in ways…
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New Las Vegas Strip Casino Offers Something Caesars, MGM Don't

Resorts World Las Vegas wants to crash the party and change the focus of the Las Vegas Strip. At the moment, the gleaming, massive new resort sort of sits as an island on the North Strip. It's not far from Circus Circus and the new Fontainebleau, which will open in 2023, sits close by as well, but right now, Resorts World exists as an oasis on an…
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The Las Vegas Strip Adds a Unique Tesla Experience

Las Vegas lets you live out nearly any (legal) fantasy. You can see pretty much any type of performance, eat anything from junk food to gourmet options from the world's most famous chefs, and gamble in any way imaginable. The Las Vegas Strip offers every possible way to indulge from any type of bar imaginable to legal marijuana possession…
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The Las Vegas Strip Adds a Unique Tesla Experience
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Surprising Las Vegas Strip Casino Getting Major Makeover

The Las Vegas covid comeback continues. Sin City has reported record visitor numbers and casino cash takes over the past few months. That's a huge comeback for a city that saw its casinos, hotels, and entertainment venues shutter during the worst days of the pandemic. Even after the reopening, crowds did not fully come back. Conventions were…
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Huge Las Vegas Strip Casino Project Moves Forward

For a long time the Las Vegas Strip referred mostly to the Caesars Entertainment (CZR) - Get Free Report and MGM Resorts (MGM) - Get Free Report properties on the South and Central Strip. Those two companies dominated by offering properties that appeal to every level of consumer. Caesars has value properties in Bally's and Flamingo, up to mid-tier…
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Iconic Las Vegas Casino Getting Huge Makeover

The times are changing in Las Vegas. Construction cranes seem to be a permanent part of the Las Vegas skyline at this point as casinos are built or upgraded along the Strip as well as in the emerging downtown Fremont St. area.. It's almost like a domino effect as each casino spends millions of dollars to upgrade their look, the next casino must…
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Another Huge Las Vegas Strip Casino/Hotel Project Moves Closer

Owning a Las Vegas Strip casino has become a bit like buying a professional sports franchise. There are only so many of them to go around and few ever come up on the open market, Many of the properties on the famed 4.2 mile stretch of road are owned by Caesars Entertainment (CZR) - Get Free Report and MGM Resorts International (MGM) - Get Free…
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Unique New Las Vegas Strip Casino Faces a Problem

Building a resort/casino -- even one that's small compared to the megaresorts owned by Caesars Entertainment (CZR) - Get Free Report, MGM Resorts (MGM) - Get Free Report, and Wynn Resorts (WYNN) - Get Free Report -- involves enormous resources. Besides hundreds of millions of dollars of capital, a developer also needs a complicated array of permits…
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New Move Continues North Las Vegas Strip Casino Resurgence

The North section of the Las Vegas Strip used to be a semi-abandoned wasteland featuring lesser casino properties, motels, sketchy gift shops. You had The Strat, formerly The Stratosphere, sitting on the very northern tip of The Strip, essentially as a lone beacon of the glitz and glamour offered by the South and Central Strips dominated by Caesars…
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Another New Casino Coming to Las Vegas (It's 20 Years in the Making)

After the worst or at least one of the worst periods in Las Vegas history, Sin City has begun a spectacular comeback. Not only have visitors begun to flock back as the pandemic eases, but construction on a number of massive projects has begun. The city, which saw its operations grind to a halt when Covid hit, now has $4.5 billion in new…
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Caesars' Las Vegas Strip Failure Turns Into a Huge Win

Every inch of land on the Las Vegas Strip has become incredibly valuable. Recent sales have placed the value of a single acre at $10 million -- and that's land located on the less popular northern end of the Strip. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) Board of Directors recently approved the sale and licensed use of a ten-acre…
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Caesars Las Vegas Strip Failure Turns Into a Huge Win

Every inch of land on the Las Vegas Strip has become incredibly valuable. Recent sales have placed the value of a single acre at $10 million -- and that's land located on the less popular northern end of the Strip. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) Board of Directors recently approved the sale and licensed use of a ten-acre…
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Las Vegas Strip Casinos Get a Big Win (Gamblers Beware)

The owners of the brand new Resorts World Las Vegas, the Genting Group, likely had mixed feelings about their $4.3 billion investment opening during the middle of a global pandemic. Resorts World, which sits on the North Strip, well away from Caesars Entertainment (CZR) - Get Free Report and MGM Resorts International (MGM) - Get Free…
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Chef Shawn McClain Debuts Balla on the Las Vegas Strip

Balla Italian Soul at the Sahara hosted its grand opening on November 10 With touches of coastal Italy, and a menu of light and flavorful pasta, chef Shawn McClain hopes that visitors will find his new restaurant "special." McClain's restaurant Balla Italian Soul celebrated its grand opening inside its new home at the Sahara Las Vegas on November…
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Chef Shawn McClain Debuts Balla on the Las Vegas Strip
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Iconic Las Vegas Strip Casino Facing Likely Demolition (or Implosion)

For a city that still has various Elvis Presley's, a few Michael Jackson's, and a Whitney Houston hologram perform every night, Las Vegas has very little nostalgia when it comes to its buildings. The Las Vegas Strip rewards the new and that means that casinos routinely get remodeled and even imploded before something new goes on that site. Some…
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Las Vegas Strip Casino Bets Big on a Bold (Cold) Idea

The Las Vegas Strip has a 24/7 restaurant that offers all-you-eat sushi and barbecue. It also has vending machines that sell cake slices, stores that offer everything from chintzy souvenirs to designer items of the highest quality. If something can be eaten, bought, or sold you can find it somewhere -- likely a lot of places -- you can find it on…
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New Las Vegas Strip Casino Reinvents a Sin City Staple

Everyone associates a few things with Las Vegas, but a major new casino player on the Strip has thrown out a classic to try something new. The covid pandemic literally stopped Las Vegas' growing momentum in its tracks. In February 2020, the city had just added the former Oakland Raiders and a number of new casino projects were in the works, with…
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New Las Vegas Strip Casino Reinvents a Sin City Staple
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Caesars' Las Vegas Strip Asset Sale Has a Resolution

Real estate on the Las Vegas Strip has become incredibly valuable. Strips of land sell for tens of millions of dollars and any parcel big enough to host a casino goes for much more than that. Actual casinos sell for billions of dollars. MGM Resorts International MGM sold Mirage to Hard Rock International for $1 billion and paid $1.625 billion to…
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Caesars' Las Vegas Strip Asset Sale Has a Resolution
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This Could Change the Las Vegas Strip Forever (In a Good Way)

Scarcity creates value. That's how collectibles, precious metals, and most certainly real estate work. That's why properties on the Las Vegas Strip have been selling for ever-higher prices. It takes a lot of land to build a resort casino, shopping area, entertainment venue, or even an arena that can compete with what Caesars Entertainment (CZR),…
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas: New renderings give a peek inside

With Southern Nevada's convention industry still climbing back from the pandemic, Fontainebleau Las Vegas owner Jeffrey Soffer wants the long-planned resort to be a hub for conferences. The 67-story hotel-casino, which is under construction and slated to debut in the fourth quarter of 2023, will feature a pillarless ballroom spanning more than…
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas: New renderings give a peek inside
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Huge Las Vegas Strip Project Moves Closer to Reality

When Elon Musk said he planned to connect the entire city of Las Vegas by putting a network of self-driving Teslas (TSLA) under the Las Vegas Strip, the idea was met with skepticism. To be fair, the entire concept of Boring Co., Musk's futuristic high-speed tunneling project, has always fallen somewhere between genius and James Bond villain. Musk…
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Huge Las Vegas Strip Project Moves Closer to Reality
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Huge Las Vegas Strip Casino Change Clears Major Hurdle

The Las Vegas Strip never stops. It's a 24/7 environment where the gaming floor never closes, restaurants and entertainment options stay open into the wee hours, and pretty much every pleasure known to man can be had at more or less any time. This 4.2-mile stretch of road has also been a place of endless change. Megaresorts including Resorts World…
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Huge Las Vegas Strip Casino Change Clears Major Hurdle
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$5-billion Moon-Themed Resort is Coming to Las Vegas

It seems like everyone is racing to get to space these days. From Musk to Bezos, even William Shatner has managed to don his space boots and go orbital. Yet for the general population, these flights of fancy are far beyond the average budget and anything non-billionaires could hope to imagine. Or are they? For anyone wanting to walk on the moon or…
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$5-billion Moon-Themed Resort is Coming to Las Vegas
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Indy Gaming: Slot companies’ proposed merger briefly fires up investors

Good morning, and welcome to the Indy Gaming newsletter, a weekly look at gaming matters nationally and internationally and how the events tie back to Nevada. If a colleague or associate emailed this newsletter to you, please to sign up and receive your own copy of Indy Gaming in your inbox. - Howard Stutz The investment community was abuzz earlier…
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A’s in Vegas furthering ballpark talks with casino magnate

Oakland Athletics officials were in Las Vegas Tuesday meeting again with hotel magnate Phil Ruffin about a potential north Strip ballpark deal, sources told the Review-Journal. The meeting is the second to occur this month, with Ruffin previously making a trip on August 2 to Oakland regarding the 37-acre Las Vegas Festival Ground site he owns,…
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Classic Las Vegas Strip Icon Makes Way for Huge New Project

Sin City has welcomed a lot of new projects, and viable locations on Las Vegas Boulevard don't stay empty very long. The pace along the Las Vegas Strip has picked up. Whereas the North Strip used to be a bit of a wasteland, hosting space-out second-tier casinos, kitschy gift shops, and sad (mostly) restaurants, the area has become a hotbed. Resorts…
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Classic Las Vegas Strip Icon Makes Way for Huge New Project
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A Long-Delayed Las Vegas Strip Project Is Back on Track

The pandemic killed a lot of investment and construction projects around the country -- but not in Las Vegas. When covid shut down the Las Vegas Strip, Caesars Entertainment (CZR) - Get Caesars Entertainment Inc. Report and MGM Resorts (MGM) - Get MGM Resorts International Report kept moving forward with huge projects -- including Caesars revamping…
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A Long-Delayed Las Vegas Strip Project Is Back on Track
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Unique New Casino Resort Coming to the Las Vegas Strip

The pandemic somehow led to a major construction boom in Las Vegas. Even though the city shutdown for a brief period where its casinos had to completely close, that did not stop construction in Sin City, Resorts World Las Vegas opened during the pandemic bringing a major new resort casino the somewhat neglected north end of the Strip. That project…
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Unique New Casino Resort Coming to the Las Vegas Strip
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Blackstone, a major Las Vegas casino landlord, acquires Australia’s Crown Resorts

The landlord of several megaresorts on the Strip has completed its buyout of billionaire James Packer's Crown Resorts Ltd., an Australian casino operator with its own history in Las Vegas. Blackstone announced Friday that it closed its acquisition of Crown, saying this marked its largest transaction to date in the Asia-Pacific region.…
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Blackstone, a major Las Vegas casino landlord, acquires Australia’s Crown Resorts
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Iconic Vegas Casino Getting Huge Makeover

The times are changing in Las Vegas. Construction cranes seem to be a permanent part of the Las Vegas skyline at this point as casinos are built or upgraded along the Strip. It's almost like a domino effect as each casino spends millions of dollars to upgrade their look, the next casino must spend money to keep up with the Joneses. The Strip is…
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Iconic Vegas Casino Getting Huge Makeover
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Another Iconic Las Vegas Strip Casino Getting Major Makeover

The Las Vegas covid comeback continues. Sin City has reported record visitor numbers and casino cash takes over the past few months. That's a huge comeback for a city that saw its casinos, hotels, and entertainment venues shutter during the worst days of the pandemic. Even after the reopening, crowds did not fully come back. Conventions were…
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Another Iconic Las Vegas Strip Casino Getting Major Makeover
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Prime Las Vegas Strip Property Markets For Sale

The Las Vegas Strip always seems to be evolving with perpetual development. Whether it's an upscale hotel and casino development, new retail or restaurant construction or building a residential condominium complex, projects are planned for up and down The Strip. One of the most anticipated projects since 2005 has been the Fontainebleau Las Vegas…
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Billionaire NBA Owner Plans New Las Vegas Strip High-End Casino

Most of the new hotel casino development plans on the Las Vegas Strip lately have centered on the North Strip, between The Strat and the Wynn Resort properties. MGM Resorts International (MGM) - Get MGM Resorts International Report and Caesars Entertainment (CZR) - Get Caesars Entertainment Inc Report, which own over a dozen properties on The…
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Billionaire NBA Owner Plans New Las Vegas Strip High-End Casino
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New Las Vegas Strip Casino Property Owner Looks to Dubai

Anything can happen on the Las Vegas Strip. That goes for what tourists might do in a place that for years told people that any sins they commit in Sin City "stay in Vegas," but it also goes for the actual properties on the famed stretch of land. MGM Resorts International (MGM) - Get MGM Resorts International Report, for example, owns an Egyptian…
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New Las Vegas Strip Casino Property Owner Looks to Dubai
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"Last Great" Las Vegas Strip Piece of Land Sells (Here's What's Coming)

The Las Vegas Strip packs a lot into 4.2 square miles. In fact, you could argue that there's no real estate on the planet that's more valuable or more competitive. MGM Resorts International (MGM) - Get MGM Resorts International Report and Caesars Entertainment CZR operate more than a dozen Strip properties combined. Each one of those essentially…
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"Last Great" Las Vegas Strip Piece of Land Sells (Here's What's Coming)
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Siegel Group acquires Las Vegas Strip land for $75M, has option for casino

The Siegel Group operates a popular deli on Convention Center Drive. The company has now purchased land sandwiched between several choice properties on the Strip. The Las Vegas-based company has acquired 10 acres just across the Strip from Resorts World Las Vegas, to the north of Encore/Wynn Las Vegas and to the south of Fontainebleau. The company…
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Siegel Group acquires Las Vegas Strip land for $75M, has option for casino
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MGM CEO Says One Big Thing Has Helped Las Vegas Casino Business

Las Vegas used to be off-limit to most major league sports due to fears over how athletes and the potential to place bets might mix. That has changed as sports betting has become legal in multiple states, making its risks to the integrity of games no longer a Las Vegas problem, but more or less a national one. That has opened the door for Sin City…
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Here Are All the Big Developments Coming to the Las Vegas Strip

Las Vegas is in the midst of another transition that could change the city's skyline and elevate the international profile of the city. Whether it's attracting professional sports leagues to the town or attracting world-class entertainers to performance residencies, Las Vegas has been on a roll over the past few years. With the new and coming…
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Here Are All the Big Developments Coming to the Las Vegas Strip
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Overlooked Section of the Iconic Las Vegas Strip Gets a New Life

When you think of the Las Vegas Strip, you generally think of the south Strip, which counts Planet Hollywood, Aria, Mandalay Bay, and Luxor among its many properties as well as the famous "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign, or the mid-Strip which contains the Venetian, Mirage, Harrah's Caesars Palace, Pairs, and Bellagio among other properties. These two…
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Overlooked Section of the Iconic Las Vegas Strip Gets a New Life
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Long-Awaited Las Vegas Strip Hotel May Finally Get Built

While the Las Vegas Strip contains some of the most iconic hotel/casinos in the world, it also has its share of failures. Nearly every major property sits on the site of a once-iconic brand that outlived its day, became dated, or just lost out to the glitz and glamor of whatever new mega-resort casino gets built. In just the past few months, we've…
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Long-Awaited Las Vegas Strip Hotel May Finally Get Built
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Construction underway at Fontainebleau Las Vegas

A visible sign of construction - a crane - has landed at Fontainebleau Las Vegas. Activity has been underway for some time at the long-unfinished hotel-casino project on the north Strip, which now has an "fb" logo near the top of the tower, work trucks on site, Fontainebleau Las Vegas signage along its fencing, and other signs of construction. This…
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Construction underway at Fontainebleau Las Vegas
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Las Vegas Advisor: MGM Resorts sells Mirage hotel for $1B

MGM Resorts International has sold the operations of the Mirage to Hard Rock International, owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, for $1.075 billion. The Mirage name can be used for a maximum of three years while a rebranding to a Hard Rock, including the building of one of its trademark guitar-shaped hotels, is completed. Hard Rock will pay rent…
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Las Vegas Advisor: MGM Resorts sells Mirage hotel for $1B
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The top 10 hotels in Las Vegas

The good news: Sin City notoriously has a lot of hotel rooms, which keeps prices low - and they're usually subsidised by the casinos, which pushes them even lower. The bad news: every hotel has a daily, non-negotiable resort fee (usually including things like wifi and gym access), which can sometimes be painfully close to the cost of your…
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The top 10 hotels in Las Vegas
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Las Vegas’ top real estate deals of 2021

Like countless other cities, Las Vegas spent the past year grappling with the pandemic and recovering from the economic disaster it unleashed in 2020. It also saw a burst of lucrative casino sales on the Strip as tourism rebounded from the public health crisis. Here is my list of Las Vegas' top 10 real estate deals of 2021. 1. The Cosmopolitan of…
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Las Vegas’ top real estate deals of 2021
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Las Vegas casino investors wagering on comeback

When driving the Strip, walking its sidewalks or navigating its casinos, there is no mistaking it: America's rowdy gambling mecca is crammed with tourists again. And even though visitor volume remains below pre-pandemic levels, and the coronavirus outbreak has by no means been stamped out, casino investors are betting big that Las Vegas is back on…
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Las Vegas casino investors wagering on comeback
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas sets late 2023 for opening

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) - It's been more than 15 years since the first shovel went into the ground at the Fontainebleau hotel and casino site on the north end of the strip. This morning, the current developers, Fontainebleau Development and partners Koch Real Estate Investments, held a "commencement ceremony" at the 3700 room hotel-casino site at 2777…
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas sets late 2023 for opening
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Las Vegas Advisor: New $500M hotel-casino project receives approval

It's not just a dream after all. The $500 million Dream Las Vegas Hotel-­Casino, announced back in February 2020, has been approved. Designed to have 20 stories and 500 rooms, the project had a long road to approval due to its proximity to McCarran Airport, drawing the attention of the TSA, FBI, FAA, Homeland Security, Secret Service, Air Force,…
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Las Vegas Advisor: New $500M hotel-casino project receives approval
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Future of the Las Vegas Strip’s north edge in flux

The north edge of the Strip, for years a sleepy stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard, got a big boost of momentum this year. Resorts World Las Vegas debuted in June to an estimated crowd of 20000 visitors and 5000 VIPs. Huge crowds waited outside to get in on opening night, and the 3500-room casino resort generated nearly $15 million in revenue during…
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Future of the Las Vegas Strip’s north edge in flux
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LVCVA to sell 10 acres of Las Vegas Strip property

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is nearing a $120 million deal to sell 10 acres of Strip-front property where the Riviera stood. The LVCVA's board of directors on Tuesday is scheduled to consider selling the land at the southeast corner of Las Vegas and Elvis Presley boulevards, across the intersection from the long-stalled former…
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LVCVA to sell 10 acres of Las Vegas Strip property
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Cashless gambling technologies grab industry’s attention, but will players buy in?

Rachelle Rabago, IGT director of casino systems product management, demonstrates cashless gaming technology as she transfers money from an IGT Pay resort wallet on a smartphone to a video slot machine during the Global Gaming Expo at the Venetian Expo, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. Friday, Oct. 8, 2021 | 2 a.m. At this week's Global Gaming Expo, cashless…
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Cashless gambling technologies grab industry’s attention, but will players buy in?
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Cashless gambling technologies grab industry’s consideration, but will players buy in?

At this week's Global Gaming Expo, cashless gambling is a sizzling matter. Companies are exhibiting off their newest fee technologies, and London-based International Game Technology's cashless on line casino administration system was acknowledged because the product innovation of the year. Yet simply exterior the Venetian Expo, the place the annual…
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Cashless gambling technologies grab industry’s consideration, but will players buy in?
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$70 million golf attraction going in next to The STRAT in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) - A $70 million, four-story golf attraction called "Atomic Range" is coming to a seven-acre site next to The STRAT on Las Vegas Boulevard. Golden Entertainment, which owns The STRAT Hotel, Casino & SkyPod, announced the 92000 square-foot attraction in a Monday news release. The multi-level range, featuring 103 hitting bays, brings…
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$70 million golf attraction going in next to The STRAT in Las Vegas
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Metro Police open kiosk on the Las Vegas Strip to bolster visitor relations

Metro Police today unveiled a first-of-its-kind public safety kiosk on the Las Vegas Strip to bolster relations with visitors as tourism rebounds, even amid the lingering coronavirus pandemic. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, Metro Capt. Dori Koren and dozens of officers and volunteers were on hand to unveil the 570-square-foot community center…
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Metro Police open kiosk on the Las Vegas Strip to bolster visitor relations
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Metro Police open kiosk on the Las Vegas Strip

A person walks past the Metropolitan Police Community Center on South Las Vegas Blvd. Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. Monday, Aug. 23, 2021 | 1:21 p.m. Metro Police today unveiled a first-of-its-kind public safety kiosk on the Las Vegas Strip to bolster relations with visitors as tourism rebounds, even amid the lingering coronavirus pandemic. Clark County…
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Metro Police open kiosk on the Las Vegas Strip
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‘Magnificent,’ ‘phenomenal’: Resorts World Las Vegas opens on the Strip

Fireworks explode during the grand opening of Resorts World Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip Thursday, June 24, 2021. The $4.3 billion megaresort, built by the Malaysia-based Genting Group, occupies the site of the former Stardust hotel-casino. Friday, June 25, 2021 | 10:07 a.m. Resorts World Las Vegas opened its doors Thursday night to guests…
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‘Magnificent,’ ‘phenomenal’: Resorts World Las Vegas opens on the Strip
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Indy Gaming: Fitch Ratings revises its outlook toward Las Vegas casino recovery, sees rebound by 2023

Good morning, and welcome to the Indy Gaming newsletter, a weekly look at gaming matters nationally and internationally and how the events tie back to Nevada. Please to sign up and receive Indy Gaming in your inbox. Fitch Ratings gaming analyst Colin Mansfield waited in line patiently to sample a specialty item offered by Boon Tong Kee, one of the…
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Indy Gaming: Fitch Ratings revises its outlook toward Las Vegas casino recovery, sees rebound by 2023
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Resorts World Las Vegas announces opening details; casinos increase gaming floor capacity

Las Vegas isn't quite back to its pre-pandemic level of activity, but in recent months, there have been signs of life and many visible changes in the city's casino landscape. Resorts are bringing back more of their popular shows and announcing new entertainment options, casinos have continued to increase their capacity limits on gaming floors and…
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Resorts World Las Vegas announces opening details; casinos increase gaming floor capacity