“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.
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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.
HRH has sharpened its timeline in its efforts to evolve into Virgin Hotel Las Vegas. The re-launch and renaming of the property should take hold in the first half of 2020 — and only after an eight-month renovation during which the resort will be closed for four months.
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.”
“If I wasn’t a gambler, I’d still feel terrible,” Derek Stevens said after his Michigan Wolverines were routed by Villanova on Monday in the NCAA finals.
Derek Stevens has gained priceless promotional value with his NCAA Tournament gambit. Before the tournament, the aggressively loyal Michigan grad bet $25,000 on the Wolverines to win the championship at 40-1 odds.
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson announced Friday that his partnership in Virgin Hotels had snapped up the Hard Rock Hotel.
Neil Moffitt started his nightlife career in the U.K., branching out to the U.S. and to Vegas, where Hakkasan has helped reshape nighclubs on the Strip.
Jon Gray was known to hang with such stars as Kanye West and Jay-Z at the Palms a decade ago. Today he’s responsible for reenergizing the hotel-casinos nightlife spaces.
Lady Gaga has played Cosmopolitan with Tony Bennet in December 2014, and Wynn Las Vegas as part of a CBS-TV special honoring Frank Sinatra. She’s back at Wynn again Dec. 30.