By Sunday morning, Fremont Street could be recovering from a typical Saturday night in Las Vegas. Or there will be labor unrest.
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Bo Bernhard, executive director of the International Gaming Institute and professor of sociology and hotel management at UNLV, recently gave a TED Talk saying Las Vegas is a smart city. He’s not talking about book smarts but “social intelligence.”
On the campaign trail, Republican lieutenant governor candidate Sue Lowden touts her decades in business as a casino executive to show she’s more qualified for the job of promoting tourism and economic development than her GOP opponent Mark Hutchison, an attorney and state senator.
After a nearly-six year ownership, German investment house Deutsche Bank announced Thursday it was parting ways with the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, the stylish — but unprofitable — Strip hotel-casino and the last megaresort to open after the recession tore apart the gaming industry.
Construction workers this week began dismantling a large crane that has sat unused atop the mothballed Fontainebleau on the North end of Strip for more than five years.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board on Wednesday recommended that Malaysia-based Genting Berhad be found suitable to hold a state gaming license, which will lead the way to development of the $4 billion Resorts World Las Vegas.
Gaming industry icon Burton Cohen died Monday at his home in the Regency Towers in the Las Vegas Country Club, sources tell the Review-Journal. During his 50 years in Las Vegas, Cohen ran a number of major casinos, including Desert Inn, Dunes and Frontier.