A casino is expansion is one of the capital expense options the Las Vegas locals company is considering with its higher cash-flow numbers.
Richard N. Velotta
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Richard N. “Rick” Velotta has covered business, the gaming industry, tourism, transportation and aviation in Las Vegas for 25 years. A former reporter and editor with the Las Vegas Sun, the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff and the Aurora (Colo.) Sun, Velotta is a graduate of Northern Arizona University where he won the school’s top journalism honor. He became the Review-Journal's assistant business editor in September 2018.
Las Vegas Sands’ Rob Goldstein, Wynn Resorts’ Wendy Webb and Affinity Gaming’s Mary Elizabeth Higgins win quick approvals from five gaming commissioners.
After Hilton ended its relationship with the Las Vegas Hilton in 2012, the company is re-entering the local market with a partnership with Resorts World Las Vegas.
Aviation leaders hope STEM Discovery Zones in Las Vegas and Reno will get students to investigate potential pilot and airport jobs.
More than 2,000 laborers are at work at Allegiant Stadium where work has begun to install the translucent plastic polymer roof of the home of the Las Vegas Raiders.
The Las Vegas-based advertising and marketing company has had a 30-year stranglehold on the lucrative LVCVA contact, but that could end by summer.
The troublesome steel cable net designed to support the lightweight ETFE roof has been put in place, Mortenson-McCarthy Joint Venture crews reported late Friday.
MGM Growth Properties reported fourth-quarter, 2019 growth and anticipates even more in 2020 after completing sales and leaseback deals on MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay.
The Boring Company’s drill completed the 4,475-foot first tunnel of the underground people-mover system at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Thursday.
Representatives of ASM Global and Levy Restaurants told the Community Benefits Plan Oversight Committee about plans to hire more than 55 percent minorities.
MGM Resorts generates about 30 percent of its revenue from its two Macao properties.
Representatives of the LVCVA board are concerned about price gouging on parking during the NFL draft, but shuttles and free lots may help solve that problem.
Expenses will go toward public safety, transportation, county permits and volunteer-related costs for the April 23-25 event expected to draw more than 600,000.
The first convention customers began using the new two-story, 430,000-square-foot meeting space at Wynn Las Vegas Monday and the company already has bookings lined up out to 2028.
The people mover at the Las Vegas Convention Center could be a transportation game-changer, but it would be helpful if the developers told us more about it.