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How retail on the Las Vegas Strip appears to buck dire national trend: Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017; Recent headlines reflect the harrowing state of the retail industry in the online shopping age. Headlines about retail on the Las Vegas Strip, however, are all about big deals and growth. Specifically, Wynn Resorts is building 75,000 square feet of high-end shopping across the street from the Fashion Show. While one development is hardly a boom, the added space, along with the aforementioned deals, reveals a confidence about retail on the Strip not found elsewhere. ...
Fertitta: Palms will reflect ‘everything we've learned over last 30 years’: Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017; Chairman and CEO Frank J. Fertitta III said building and operating hybrid resorts (appealing to both tourists and locals) “is what we do.” “We're going to take everything ...
Next owner may expand Stratosphere with convention space: Friday, Aug. 4, 2017; In a conference call with gaming analysts today, Golden Entertainment CEO Blake Sartini spoke about where the company saw its strongest results in the ...
Gaming trade group updates how it addresses problem gambling: Friday, Aug. 4, 2017; One of the gaming industry’s largest trade groups announced an updated approach to problem gambling during a roundtable discussion on the issue at UNLV’s international Gaming Institute on Thursday.
Caesars, noting uptick in revenue, trumpets room renovations, esports push: Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017; Room renovations have been a priority for Caesars because it’s a low-risk, high-reward investment that has driven revenue for the company. In a presentation accompanying the call, the company stated it plans to renovate just over 6,000 rooms by the end of next year ...
Flamingo completes $6.5 million renovation of meeting center: Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017; Caesars Entertainment announced Wednesday it has completed a renovation of its meeting center at the Flamingo Las Vegas, a first step in a refresh of the venerable ...
Monte Carlo reboot to add more convention space: Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017; MGM Resorts International announced Tuesday it is adding 77,000 square feet of meeting space as part of its revamp of Monte Carlo. The news comes shortly after announcing ...
Doormen complain MGM-Uber relationship costs them tip money: Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017; Doormen at MGM Resorts International properties have filed a grievance over an alleged partnership the company has with Uber, claiming the relationship violates the union contract, costs doormen tip revenue and creates an unsafe environment at casino entrances. The Las Vegas Sun has received documents that outline the doormen's complaints about Uber at MGM Grand. Several doormen ...
Boyd, noting a 'solid quarter,' talks steady success of locals market: Thursday, July 27, 2017; Boyd Gaming, owner of such Las Vegas area casinos as the California, Orleans and Sam’s Town, reported its second-quarter earnings today ...
MGM Resorts reports increased second-quarter earnings: Thursday, July 27, 2017; Executives of MGM International were all superlatives during a conference call and webcast Thursday to discuss the company’s second-quarter earnings. “We are quite ...
Nevada casinos end fiscal year with winnings up 2.9 percent: Thursday, July 27, 2017; Nevada’s gaming revenue was up last month and for fiscal 2017, according to numbers released today by the ...
Asian properties drive strong second quarter for Sands: Wednesday, July 26, 2017; The second quarter was a good one for Las Vegas Sands, Corp., based largely on results from its properties outside of Las Vegas,
Wynn says he has ‘most precious piece of real estate’ in Las Vegas: Tuesday, July 25, 2017; Wynn Resorts is talking with other companies to develop land behind the lagoon project planned just east of Wynn Las Vegas and Encore, CEO Steve Wynn said in a conference call with gaming analysts today. During the call, held to discuss ...
Upgrades at Palace Station could include convention center: Tuesday, July 25, 2017; Renovations at Palace Station may continue with a new 335-foot tower and convention center, according to plans it submitted to the city of Las Vegas. While Station Casinos has not released a construction timeline or description of the new facilities, and says it’s deciding whether the expansion is feasible, documents submitted to the city indicate the structure will be ...
Downtown casino executive: Gaming’s embrace of esports won’t happen overnight: Friday, July 21, 2017; The combination of video gaming and gambling is undoubtedly going to become more popular. But it’s not the revolutionary idea some make it out to be, and its widespread ...
'Everybody's gotta watch': De Niro’s Rothstein quoted in opinion on MGM security guards: Wednesday, July 19, 2017; A District of Columbia Circuit Court judge quoted Sam “Ace” Rothstein, Robert De Niro’s character in “Casino,” in an opinion released Tuesday that found security technicians at Bellagio and the Mirage cannot be represented by the International Union of Operating Engineers Local (IUOE) 501.
The myths and realities of Las Vegas casino hosts: Wednesday, July 19, 2017; In pop culture, Las Vegas casino hosts are almost as legendary as the players they sometimes serve, the uber-rich bettors known in gambling slang as “whales.” But the biggest challenge casino hosts face isn’t getting finicky players to bet — it’s getting the support and understanding they need from management to do their job. That observation was one of the takeaways during a two-day conference on ...
Wynn, Encore to charge for self-parking starting Aug. 7: Friday, July 14, 2017; Wynn Las Vegas and Wynn Encore will start charging its customers for self-parking beginning Monday, Aug. 7. The resorts began charging for valet services in fall last year, joining MGM Resorts International, which last year became the first major Strip resort company to break the long-standing Las Vegas tradition of free parking. Because of the pending opening of a shopping plaza as well as the construction of Paradise Park, the fees are needed to “ensure parking is easily accessible for guests,” the company said in a statement. Paradise Park is ...
CEO McBeath: Cosmopolitan has 'exceeded all of our forecasted numbers': Friday, July 14, 2017; “Just the right amount of wrong” is still the Cosmopolitan’s catchy slogan after almost seven years of operation on the Las Vegas Strip. After almost three years with ...
Hard Rock, Trump among hotels affected by Sabre data breach: Wednesday, July 12, 2017; The Hard Rock Hotel and Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas say customers who booked rooms from August 2016 to March 2017 may have had credit card information stolen because of ...
Development in Las Vegas resort corridor is pushing east: Thursday, July 6, 2017; Capitalizing on an increase in the number of tourists it serves relative to locals in the last few years, the venerable Ellis Island on Koval Lane east of the Las Vegas Strip broke ...
Las Vegas visitation expected to tick up for the Fourth of July: Friday, June 30, 2017; You can expect more this Fourth of July — more tourists, more traffic and more heat. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority expects 323,000 visitors to come to Las Vegas, that’s just about ...
Nevada gaming revenue up 3.5 percent in May: Thursday, June 29, 2017; Nevada recorded another positive month for gaming, according to the state Gaming Control Board, which today released May’s revenue numbers for large casinos.
The board, which tracks ...
Nevada oddsmakers cheer top-court review of N.J. sports betting case: Tuesday, June 27, 2017; Nevada gaming lawyers, lobbyists and handicappers applauded the Supreme Court’s decision today to hear a case against a law preventing legalizing sports gambling in New Jersey ...
What are the prospects of retail on the former New Frontier site on the Strip?: Tuesday, June 27, 2017; It’s a 20-year-old question that investors have spent billions trying to answer: What, if anything, can get built on the site of the New Frontier? Experts speculate ...
How Sunset Station changed the scene: Monday, June 26, 2017; It was Station Casinos’ flagship property when it opened in 1997, a resort that easily could have been built on the Strip instead of in suburban Henderson. Sunset Station, now ...
Gaming regulators OK pari-mutuel betting on nontraditional events: Thursday, June 22, 2017; Bettors in Nevada can now place pari-mutuel style bets on events like e-sports tournaments, the World Series of Poker and the NBA draft after the Nevada Gaming Commission today unanimously approved ...
MGM Grand breaks ground on convention space addition: Tuesday, June 20, 2017; MGM Grand is set to break ground Tuesday on an expansion to its convention center that will add 250,000 square feet, giving it more than 850,000 square feet of meeting and convention space. ...
Stevens relishes blank canvas in devising downtown resort: Tuesday, June 20, 2017; While owners of other gaming companies are building additions to their properties or buying existing resorts, Stevens is preparing to tear down older venues and construct a new resort in their place. The Las Vegas Sun interviewed Stevens last week to talk about ...
Bet your bottom dollar chairs matter in casinos: Friday, June 16, 2017; The bulk of Nevada’s economy rests on one unglamorous, taken-for-granted object. We’re talking about chairs — the kind seen in front of almost every one of the 166,855 slot and video poker machines in Nevada. Players dropped nearly $2 billion into casino coffers while ...
LVCVA OKs massive Convention Center expansion: Tuesday, June 13, 2017; The financing — $900 million worth of bonds — and a plan to spend almost $1.5 billion to expand and renovate the Las Vegas Convention Center were approved Tuesday at ...
Golden Entertainment’s purchase of four casinos illustrates midmarket consolidation: Tuesday, June 13, 2017; A trend toward consolidation on the Las Vegas Strip, with fewer companies owning more casinos, appears to aptly describe the locals market after Monday’s announcement that Golden Entertainment is buying American Casino Entertainment Properties. The sale of American — which owns the Stratosphere, Arizona Charlie’s Decatur, Arizona Charlie’s Boulder and the Aquarius Casino in Laughlin — to Golden is expected to be completed by the end of the year, pending ...
PT’s Pub owner buying Stratosphere, other casinos: Monday, June 12, 2017; Golden Entertainment, the company that owns PT’s Pub, a slot route company and casinos in Pahrump and Maryland, announced today it is buying American Casino and ...
What to do when the airline needs your seat: Viral videos spotlight a practice that’s uncommon but not unusual; Monday, June 12, 2017; Recently, social media has been buzzing with dramatic videos of airline employees battling customers and security removing passengers from airplanes. One viral video showed Chicago aviation police ...
So long, Vickie: Iconic Fremont Street sign riding into the sunset: Thursday, June 8, 2017; Another Las Vegas landmark will disappear June 12 when downtown casino owner Derek Stevens dismantles the iconic neon sign Vegas Vickie to make way for a new Fremont Street resort. The kicking neon cowgirl is currently perched above the the closed strip club Girls of Glitter Gulch. It will be dismantled so ...
Drone technician program at CSN gets ready to fly: Thursday, June 8, 2017; Students will learn fabrication and engineering skills to build and repair drones, as well as programming skills to work on the software that controls the devices ...
Trump taps Las Vegan to be key bank regulator: Wednesday, June 7, 2017; President Donald Trump announced Monday he is nominating banking executive and Las Vegan Joseph Otting to be the next comptroller of the currency, a position that requires confirmation by the Senate. ...
Gaming experts on how SLS can succeed on the north Strip: Friday, June 2, 2017; Intense speculation has surrounded SLS, the Strip resort purchased last week by Alex Meruelo and Meruelo Group, since it opened in 2014. To get a feel for what might happen, the Las Vegas Sun spoke to several ...
Nevada gaming revenue up 1.19 percent in April: Wednesday, May 31, 2017; Nevada’s gaming revenue increased by 1.19 percent to $886,528,810 in April, compared to a win of $876,135,199 for the same month in 2016, the Nevada ...
Holiday weekend: Here come the tourists — and high temperatures: Friday, May 26, 2017; Memorial Day will be hotter and more crowded on the Las Vegas Strip than last year, if weathermen and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority are to be believed ...
Why some slot machine themes just don’t work: Thursday, May 25, 2017; You would think it would be a sure-fire hit in Las Vegas: a slot machine with a Frank Sinatra theme. It was unveiled in 2001 when then-Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman ...
SLS on Strip sold to owners of Reno casino: Tuesday, May 23, 2017; SLS Las Vegas announced Tuesday it had agreed to be purchased by Alex Meruelo and Meruelo Group, the owners of the Grand Sierra Resort Hotel & Casino in Reno. Neither company would reveal the purchase price but in a press release announcing the sale said they expect the sale to be ...
Former member of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus mourns its closing: Las Vegan Jon Weiss: "I want to scream from the top of my lungs how important this art is to America"; Saturday, May 20, 2017; The final show of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is Sunday. Las Vegan Jon Weiss spent 25 years working for the circus and is understandably sad to see it leave. "Imagine Major League Baseball going away,” he said. “Something that’s been ...
Flamingo Las Vegas rooms to get upgrade: Thursday, May 18, 2017; Rooms at the Flamingo Las Vegas will get a $90 million overhaul starting in August, parent company Caesars Entertainment officials said Thursday. ...
Paid parking starts at Cosmopolitan: Tuesday, May 16, 2017; As it promised last year, the Cosmopolitan has begun charging for parking. Guests of the Strip resort and others who wish to valet or use the self-parking garage will have to ...
Tourists contributed $2.1B to Southern Nevada coffers in 2016: Tuesday, May 9, 2017; Southern Nevada’s governments would have been $2.1 billion poorer if no tourists had come to Las Vegas in 2016. ...
LVCVA’s operating revenue up nearly 10 percent: Tuesday, May 9, 2017; Revenue and tax earnings are up for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, the agency tasked with marketing Las Vegas as a destination, largely because of the recent success of casinos in Southern Nevada. ...
Statistician's tips on increasing your odds at blackjack in Las Vegas: Friday, May 5, 2017; Michael Shackleford, a gambling aficionado and a mathematician, offers five tips to win at the blackjack table. As the owner of the The Wizard of Odds website, the former actuary and adjunct professor of casino math at the UNLV has spent countless hours calculating ...
Red Rock Resort revenues up in 1Q: Thursday, May 4, 2017; Economic growth, renovation and redevelopment were the watchwords in the first-quarter earnings call for Red Rock Resorts, which owns and operates locals giant Stations Casinos.
Flush with cash, Fertittas launch investment firm: Wednesday, May 3, 2017; Less than a year after selling the UFC, the Fertitta brothers officially launched their latest business, Fertitta Capital, employing some of the same people with whom they worked in the mixed martial arts company. Monday was the official launch for Fertitta Capital, an investment company that will be led by CEO Nakisa Bidarian. Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta will be throwing in ...