Las Vegas Sun

April 24, 2024

9:51 a.m. - Entertainer Larry Edwards poses in front of the Riviera Monday, May 4, 2015. Edwards performed as Tina Turner in "An Evening at La Cage" at the casino from 1987 to 2009, he said. The 60-year-old Riviera, which was the Las Vegas Strips first high-rise property, will be imploded to make way for a $2.3 billion convention center business district facility.

Steve Marcus

9:51 a.m. - Entertainer Larry Edwards poses in front of the Riviera Monday, May 4, 2015. Edwards performed as Tina Turner in "An Evening at La Cage" at the casino from 1987 to 2009, he said. The 60-year-old Riviera, which was the Las Vegas Strips first high-rise property, will be imploded to make way for a $2.3 billion convention center business district facility.