The Mirage’s expiration date officially has come into view. The resort is closing to be remade as Hard Rock Las Vegas.
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Westgate President and GM Cami Christensen is backing her lifelong friend and top Iowa assistant Jan Jensen in the Iowa-LSU game.
Bakkt Theater ends the Zappos Theater era — and soon — at Planet Hollywood. The venue’s renaming goes into effect really quick-like, on Friday night, in time for Miranda Lambert’ s return.
The Mirage co-founder Elaine Wynn recalls the volcano, indoor atrium, giant exotic fish tank and high-limit baccarat as groundbreaking amenities.
Las Vegas is packing some pow and wow into the July 4th holiday. A classic Las Vegas Strip fireworks spectacular is planned on that date, with pyro erupting off seven resort rooftops.
The Greyhound bus station’s move out of downtown has cost a Plaza VIP guest his favorite means of transportation.
Virgin Hotels Las Vegas President and CEO Richard “Boz” Bosworth says, “Both the Shag Room and The Bar are contiguous ultralounges, similar to Alibi or Clique, but combined.”
MGM Resorts International notified a large majority of its entertainment and sports division employees Monday that they will be laid off effective Aug. 31.
D Las Vegas co-owner Derek Stevens says of the bronze statue, “He’s aiming to please.”
Chuck Bowling has real-time experience in crisis management, having been in place at Mandalay Bay in the arduous recovery from the Oct. 1 shootings.
“The response went through the roof,” the owner of the D Las Vegas and Golden Gate said a day after giving away 2,000 flights to tourists across the country.
MGM Resorts International has reportedly laid off several high-level executives in sweeping moves Friday, including a quartet of hotel presidents.
David Gross is the late Nipsey Hussle’s friend and business associate who posted on Instagram that he and Hussle were partners in Virgin Hotels Las Vegas as the property is re-branded in 2020.
Jenn Michaels, MGM Resorts International Senior Vice President of Public Relations, was inducted among a field of 100 nominees across the country.
MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren’s position remains that if Park MGM is successful (and he expects it to be), “We might look at doing similar things, but there is not any specific project in the works yet.”