Resorts World Las Vegas will feature a cash-free casino management system and a video wall that can be seen for miles.
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At 11 p.m. Thursday, Resorts World will open the doors of its 3,500-room integrated resort on the site once home to the storied Stardust.
Placed in an online-only format last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s largest gaming industry exhibition will return to a live gathering in the fall.
Malaysia-based Genting Group will make its Las Vegas debut in June with a $4.3 billion, 3,500-room megaresort on 87 acres formerly occupied by Boyd Gaming Corp.’s Stardust resort.
It had been 415 days ago when the Hard Rock Hotel closed. On Thursday night, the doors reopened with several flourishes, including a new owner and casino operator and a fresh look.
Nevadans are optimistic about Las Vegas’ post-coronavirus future, but they believe a full economic recovery is going to take some time.
Affiliates of Apollo Global Management Inc. and Vici Properties Inc. will acquire The Venetian, Palazzo and the Sands Expo & Convention Center.
Las Vegas Sands Corp., MGM Resorts International and Wynn Resorts Ltd. made Fortune’s annual list of most-admired companies in the hotel, casino and resort category.
After the Circa casino opened its doors Oct. 28, the property received special permission from regulators to open the hotel separately and that began Saturday.
When exactly the state crosses from pandemic to post-pandemic is hard to nail down, though experts have varying opinions of what that might look like.
The marketing genius behind Circa seemed to pull all the right levers at the right time and now Las Vegas has a new downtown resort to pick through historic Easter eggs.
Circa owner Derek Stevens joked that because his new downtown resort was expensive to build, he couldn’t afford to put in an arcade.