LVCVA President and CEO Steve Hill believes a potential solution for parking problems is the Boring Company’s $52.5 million people-mover — a system that could eventually be expanded citywide connecting resorts and even McCarran International Airport to the Convention Center.
A few months after the Blackstone Group bought the Bellagio for more than $4 billion, it has partnered with MGM Resorts on a deal to acquire two other Las Vegas Strip properties. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The fashion trade show MAGIC, held Monday through Wednesday at the Las Vegas Convention Center. (Elizabeth Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Nearly two years after Faraday Future bailed on its North Las Vegas auto factory, the company has put its land up for sale. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Bellagio Conservatory Team transformed the 14,000 square foot conservatory to commemorate Chinese New Year, the holiday that marks the end of the coldest days of winter. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Holiday parade lights up Downtown Summerlin every Friday and Saturday night through Dec. 22.
In 2015, the Nevada Public Utilities Commission voted in favor of a new tariff structure that reduced net energy metering buyback rates and increased fix fees for residential solar customers.
Las Vegas’ apartment vacancy rate is among the smallest in the country, and rents are climbing faster than the national average. (LVRJ)
Aristocrat Technologies Chairman Ian Blackburne discusses the company’s growth. (LVRJ)
The more than 3,000-room Bellagio hotel is situated on the site of the former Dunes Hotel. The Dunes was imploded in 1993, and construction of the Bellagio started in 1996. It cost $1.6 billion to build, making it the most expensive hotel in the world at the time. The Bellagio was former Wynn Resorts Ltd. Chairman and CEO Steve Wynn’s second major casino on the Strip after The Mirage. MGM Resorts International acquired the property from Steve Wynn in 2000. (Tara Mack/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Months after developer Steve Witkoff bought the Fontainebleau last summer, he unveiled plans to turn the mothballed hotel into a Marriott-managed resort called The Drew. But if Richard “Boz” Bosworth’s plans didn’t fall through, the north Las Vegas Strip tower could have become a Waldorf Astoria with several floors of timeshare units. (Eli Segall/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Experts discuss Nevada’s indoor farming industry. (Bailey Schulz/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas’ largest gaming companies (by employment) have 57 members on their corporate boards combined, eight of whom are women. Only two of these companies — MGM Resorts International and Boyd Gaming Corp. — have female representation on their boards that is higher than the national average.
Buck Wargo interviews founding Dean of UNLV School of Medicine Barbara Atkinson.
The Silverton casino concept turns 20 this year and has gone through multiple renovations to become the attraction it is today. (Madelyn Reese/View)
A group of prostitutes soon could be co-owners of a legal brothel in Nye County.
70-year-old Dennis Hof is in talks to buy the 17-bed Chicken Ranch brothel in Pahrump.
To help raise capital, he’s offering his independent contractors a stake in the company.
“The goal is to have the first employee-owned brothel in the world.” Dennis Hof
Three prostitutes have already agreed to invest $500,000 in the Chicken Ranch.
Hof said he’s aiming to raise $2.25 million.
