Las Vegas Business News

Before any purchase, customer must be sold on whether to enter store

Samantha Lucas and Heather Campbell are the owners of Heather Allen Concepts and have been working re-design the Regis Galerie at The Grand Canal Shoppes on Thursday, October 01, 2015. =

Sisters Heather Campbell and Samantha Lucas, Las Vegas natives, aim to create striking storefronts that can capture the attention of potential customers from 40 feet away.

2 November 2015
By VEGAS INC Staff

Millennials are all the rage in gaming industry

“It’s tough to make predictions,” Yogi Berra said, “especially about the future.” Well, undaunted and undeterred, and hopefully unremembered if I’m wrong, here are a few prognostications about the millennial crowd ...

2 November 2015
By Roger Snow

Private banker’s interests go beyond the wealthy

Richard Justiana recently started a new chapter in his long banking career, joining the private banking team at Nevada State Bank.

The senior private banking officer of the Private Bank by Nevada State Bank discusses financial planning for affluent people, volunteering for the Make-A-Wish Foundation and the power of a positive attitude.

2 November 2015
By VEGAS INC Staff

Rewind: What could’ve been for Trump in downtown Las Vegas

Donald Trump, left, talks with then-Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman during a topping-off ceremony for the first tower of the Trump International Hotel & Towers on May 25, 2007.

"I’ve never been in a room with such egos. I’ve never seen anything like it," Oscar Goodman recalls his wife saying about a conversation between himself and Donald Trump ...

2 November 2015
By John Katsilometes

UNLV students invent games that might one day hit casinos

UNLV Harrah Hotel College Center for Gaming Innovation student Taylor Ross, center, and UNLV Center for Gaming Innovation Director Mark Yoseloff play 40 Times Double Down blackjack, a game invented by Ross.

At UNLV’s Center for Gaming Innovation, students double as inventors — and their creations can end up on local casino floors. The center offers a class on subjects such as the history of gaming innovation, the mathematics of gambling and intellectual property law. Its main focus, however, is the projects students create: casino games that often work their way through the patent process and may eventually appear before gamblers. Not every game created in the class is patented, but the ones that are receive ...

1 November 2015
By J.D. Morris

Harry Reid says daily fantasy sports can’t police itself

FanDuel employees are shown in the fantasy sports company's offices Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015, in New York.

Nevada Sen. Harry Reid is calling daily fantasy sports sites "unregulated, illegal gambling" and says in a statement that self-regulation the industry desires won't be enough. Reid was responding Friday to an open letter released a day earlier from FanDuel CEO Nigel Eccles, who, in a letter addressed to ...

30 October 2015
By Kimberly Pierceall, Associated Press

Trade trip: China could be new market for Nevada water tech

Water shortages and oppressive pollution are some of China's biggest obstacles, but they could also spell big opportunity for Nevada. Gov. Brian Sandoval and a small delegation from Nevada returned Oct. 25 from a weeklong trade mission to China that was focused on getting Nevada-born pollution solutions into China, and coaxing ...

30 October 2015
By Michelle Rindels, Associated Press

MGM Resorts’ Murren on prospect of charging for parking: ‘Everything’s on the table’

A tour of MGM Arena under construction behind Monte Carlo and New York-New York on Friday, May 1, 2015, in Las Vegas.

MGM Resorts International’s chief executive does not yet know whether his company will eventually charge drivers to park near its new arena on the Strip. But he has apparently not ruled the option out. The 20,000-seat arena, developed in partnership with Anschutz Entertainment Group, is set to open next year in the area behind ...

30 October 2015
By J.D. Morris

School tour series helps companies connect with CCSD’s best and brightest

Skyler Lao works on a car as guests tour the Southwest Career and Technical Academy's Automotive Technology shop Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015. The Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance (LVGEA) is sending business leaders on a tour of CCSD's magnet and technical academies in order to show local industry how the district is making strides in addressing southern Nevada's workforce needs.

Representatives from high-profile companies like NV Energy, Roseman University and Cox Communications went back to school on Thursday, where they learned about ...

30 October 2015
By Ian Whitaker

Nevada gaming revenue up 1.5 percent in September

In this 2010 photo, a baccarat game is shown in the high-limit room at Hard Rock Hotel.

Led by a strong month in the state’s major casino markets, Nevada gaming revenue rose 1.5 percent in September, the state reported today. The Gaming Control Board said ...

29 October 2015
By J.D. Morris

MGM Resorts announces restructuring plan involving 10 properties

The exterior of Mandalay Bay on Thursday, June 6, 2013.

In a major corporate restructuring move aimed at strengthening its business and giving it more room to grow, MGM Resorts International today announced plans to move 10 of its properties into a new ...

29 October 2015
By J.D. Morris

These Las Vegas undercover officers only look like they’re on vacation

A sign for the Uber Activation Center on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, at Hampton Inn Tropicana.

They get rides in buses, Uber vehicles and limos, wearing the same casual attire as the tourists around them on the Las Vegas Strip. But that’s where the similarities end ...

29 October 2015
By Daniel Rothberg

Southwest Gas may raise rates by nearly $30 million

A view of the monument sign outside Southwest Gas headquarters on Spring Mountain Road Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015.

On Nov. 17, the Public Utilities Commission will hear testimony on whether Nevadans will see heftier bills from Southwest Gas ...

29 October 2015
By Kyle Roerink

Fed keeps rate at record low but will consider December hike

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington, Wednesday, June 17, 2015.

The Federal Reserve is keeping its key short-term interest rate at a record low in light of a weak global economy, slower U.S. hiring and subpar inflation. But it signaled the possibility of a rate hike in ...

29 October 2015
By Martin Crutsinger, Associated Press

Investors still see value in flipping homes in Las Vegas

Scott Yancey, from A&E’s “Flipping Vegas,” does a walk-through to see the progress of one of their remodeling projects on Tuesday Nov. 26, 2013.

House flippers aren't giving up on Las Vegas, even though profits are sliding here and rising elsewhere. Flipping accounted for 8.7 percent of home sales in Southern Nevada in ...

28 October 2015
By Eli Segall

Southwest to end flight from Ohio airport to Las Vegas

Southwest Airlines planes sit at McCarran International Airport.

Southwest Airlines has announced that it's eliminating nonstop flights from Akron-Canton Airport in northeast Ohio to Tampa, Las Vegas and Orlando. Officials said Tuesday the flights will ...

28 October 2015
Associated Press

Offshore game of online betting: How bookmaking site hides in plain sight

The Holiday Beach Resort and Casino, where the bookmaking site Pinnacle Sports first established its headquarters in Willemstad, on the Caribbean island nation of Curacao, Aug. 18, 2015. Pinnacle Sports is a case study in how bookmaking sites, illegal in the United States, manage to operate on American soil.

In a vintage industrial building with a Romanesque arch, lights flash on powerful computers in row after row of metal cabinets and cages. This is one small corner of the Internet, unremarkable except for the confluence of two facts: Sports betting is largely illegal in the United States. And this ...

28 October 2015
By James Glanz, Agustín Armendariz and Walt Bogdanich, New York Times News Service

Walgreens on the Las Vegas Strip draws eight-figure sales price

A view of the Walgreens at 3025 Las Vegas Boulevard South on Monday, Oct. 26, 2015. The north Strip property has sold for $37 million, a 33 percent jump from its sales price in 2012.

With merchandise such as shot glasses saying “Hangovers are for amateurs” and T-shirts that list “15 reasons why a beer is better than a woman,” the Walgreens at Las Vegas Boulevard and Convention Center Drive isn't your ...

28 October 2015
By Eli Segall

Ikea plans sizable rooftop solar array at Las Vegas location

Construction continues on the Ikea Las Vegas store at Durango Drive and Sunset Road Tuesday, July 28, 2015. The store is expected to open in the summer of 2016.

Ikea, the popular Swedish retailer that expects next summer to open a much-anticipated location in the valley, announced plans to construct what it believes will be ...

27 October 2015
By Daniel Rothberg

Plaza to display, sell sports memorabilia from the closed Las Vegas Club

An exterior view of Las Vegas Club during the casino's final night Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, in downtown Las Vegas. The casino closed its doors at midnight.

The Plaza plans to open a special gallery next week filled with various sports-related items that previously decorated the shuttered Las Vegas Club. The gallery will make its public debut Tuesday night and will include hundreds of items available for purchase, the Plaza announced today. A spokeswoman for the Plaza said the gallery will be located ...

27 October 2015
By J.D. Morris
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