Las Vegas Business News

Resorts World Las Vegas continues to build for the future

Resorts World Las Vegas provided a preview of the 100,000-square-foot LED screen on its West Tower on July 4.

Although it won’t open until next summer, Resorts World Las Vegas is facing new challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The 3,500-room, $4.3 billion casino megaresort from Malaysian corporation Genting Berhad installed new safety protocols and managed to ...

Entrepreneur's message: Focus on being great, and keep moving forward

Nelson L. Tressler

Nelson Tressler, a long-time successful Southern Nevada commercial real estate agent, drew on his own life experiences battling poverty, dyslexia and other childhood troubles to develop a new program that helps people hold themselves accountable to accomplish their goals.

People on the Move: July 27, 2020

In the Notes: All In Aviation, Caesars Entertainment Corporation, Don Vito’s, Silverado Steak House, Howard & Howard, SCE Credit Union, Olympia Lazar and more ...

'Winner, winner': Gambler hits $320K jackpot at Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas

A gambler hit a $320,000 jackpot at Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas on July 25, 2020.

A guest playing high-limit slots on Saturday night at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas won $320,000 ...

CEO of Fremont Street Experience stepping down

Fremont Street Experience President and CEO Patrick Hughes speaks as Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak proclaims January 30th as Only Vegas Day during an event at the Fremont Street Experience Thursday, January 30, 2010.

Patrick Hughes, president and CEO of the Fremont Street Experience, is stepping down Oct. 31 after more than four years in charge of the downtown Las Vegas ...

Vegas Inc, Cox Business seek valley’s top in tech

Vegas Inc, Cox Business seek valley’s top in tech

Vegas Inc and Cox Business are now accepting nominations for the 10th annual Top Tech Awards.

Several Strip casino operators reducing staff amid pandemic

A view of the Encore and Wynn on the Las Vegas Strip Wednesday, April 22, 2020.

Several Las Vegas Strip resorts have announced jobs reductions as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Wynn Resorts, which operates Wynn Las Vegas and Encore, and ...

Casino unions drop MGM from coronavirus safety lawsuit

In this June 4, 2020 file photo, people play blackjack at the reopening of the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas.

Unions representing 65,000 Las Vegas-area casino workers have dropped two MGM Resorts International properties from a lawsuit accusing companies of skimping on protective measures and putting employees at risk of illness and death during the coronavirus pandemic. Culinary Union ...

Rosen introduces bill to raise cap on small-business loan program

Nevada Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, have introduced a bill to raise the cap on a federal loan program to ...

New Caesars CFO: Some job cuts coming, but company is 'bullish on Las Vegas'

One of the many sculptured angels is shown at Caesars Palace on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015.

The merger of Eldorado Resorts and Caesars Entertainment Corp. will result in a reduction of jobs, but the new company plans to make cuts as “compassionately and transparently as possible." Before layoffs resulting from the coronavirus pandemic ...

Eldorado finishes $17.3B buyout of Caesars Entertainment

An exterior view of Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip Dec. 26, 2017.

A Nevada company that started in 1973 with a single hotel-casino in Reno announced Monday it has completed a $17.3 billion buyout of Caesars Entertainment Corp. and ...

BOMA Nevada president: "This is the time for us to lean into our connections and industry partners"

Tena Cameron is president of BOMA Nevada.

If there’s one thing the pandemic has reinforced to Tena Cameron, it's that there’s always more to learn, and those willing to be open and adaptable will succeed.

Curaleaf company president: Nevada could lead cannabis into the mainstream

Curaleaf President Joe Bayern

Curaleaf Holdings is close to becoming the nation’s largest cannabis chain. Its president, Joe Bayern, talked to us about how the industry is navigating COVID-19 ...

The Notes: July 20, 2020

In the Notes: Halley Turner, Cassie Catania-Hsu, Joseph Ferreira, Molly Malloy, Stacey Lei, Emma Phillips and more ...

Tough economic times bring out entrepreneurial spirit

Jeff Saling is co-founder and executive director of StartUpNV.

It’s sometimes the jolt of difficult economic times that lead people to make a career change. A bad economy can lead to innovation and investment in promising ideas, said Jeff Saling, co-founder and executive director of StartUpNV, a nonprofit ...

Zappos tries something new: sell 1 shoe instead of 2

A sign hangs outside the headquarters of Zappos, Tuesday, July 14, 2020, in Las Vegas. Zappos is trying out new ways to sell shoes: allow shoppers to buy a single shoe at a time or buy a pair in two different sizes. The tests, which started Tuesday, are aimed at amputees, those with differing foot sizes and other people who have been left out by the shoe industry, which has sold shoes in pairs and in the same size for decade.

Zappos is trying out new ways to sell shoes: allow shoppers to buy a single shoe at a time or purchase a pair in two different sizes. The tests are aimed at amputees ...

Nevada's Eldorado Resorts gets approval to become gambling giant

In this Jan. 12, 2015, file photo, a man takes pictures of Caesars Palace hotel and casino in Las Vegas.

A $17.3 billion buyout creating the world’s biggest casino company won final approval Friday, with New Jersey gambling regulators agreeing to let Nevada-based Eldorado Resorts Inc. acquire Caesars Entertainment Corp. It comes after an antitrust analyst had assured the New Jersey Casino Control Commission that the deal affecting four of the nine casino-resorts in Atlantic City would not ...

Vdara luxury hotel at Aria reopening Thursday

An exterior view of the Vdara and Aria hotel-casino Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020.

MGM Resorts International’s Vdara Hotel and Spa will reopen Thursday. The hotel, a luxury brand at the Aria on the Strip, has been closed since mid-March because of the ...

New Jersey regulators take up Eldorado plan to buy Caesars

This April 1, 2015, file photo, shows an entrance to the Caesars casino in Atlantic City, N.J.

New Jersey gambling regulators began Wednesday to consider Nevada-based Eldorado Resorts Inc.’s plan to buy Caesars Entertainment Corp. in a ...

Reeling from pandemic, Boyd Gaming laying off at least a quarter of its workforce 

The Eastside Cannery, built as a slightly higher-end property than its sister casino in North Las Vegas, occupies a part of the suburban valley that is already home to a host of casinos. It's within three miles of Boulder Station, Arizona Charlie's and Sam's Town, but it's expected to benefit from being the new kid on the Boulder Strip.

Boyd Gaming Corp. is permanently laying off at least 25% of its employees because of the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the company said. Furloughed employees who have not ...