Las Vegas Business News

Grand Canal Shoppes to welcome Buffalo’s famed Anchor Bar, bids farewell to Postrio

This Oct. 5, 2005, photo shows the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, N.Y., which is credited with inventing "Buffalo style" wings 50 years ago. Anchor Bar is bringing its wings to Las Vegas with a restaurant opening in the Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian.

As a new 24-hour dry-cleaning service sets a mid-May opening date for for its second location in the valley and an East Coast landmark heads to Las Vegas, a local fine-dining restaurant …

6 May 2015
By Eva Chidester

200 accept buyouts at Zappos after management changes

A view of the Zappos headquarters in the old city hall building downtown Monday, Sept. 9, 2013.

CEO Tony Hsieh announced in a memo that the company was eliminating managers and attempting to make Zappos "a fully self-organized, self-managed organization by ...

5 May 2015
By Pashtana Usufzy

Investors buy almost 360 acres at BLM auction; 240 acres don’t sell

BLM auctions are a source of raw land for Las Vegas homebuilders, whose business is picking up steam this year after falling hard in 2014.

5 May 2015
By Eli Segall

Resorts World, off to ceremonial start, vies for theme of authenticity

Members of the Resorts World and White Crane Lion Dancers welcome guests as the Malaysia-based Genting Group prepares to break ground on the $4 billion Resorts World Las Vegas property on Tuesday, May 5, 2015.

Resorts World Las Vegas' Chinese theme isn't just for tourists — it should be appealing to Chinese citizens, too. At least that’s what executives sought to impress at ...

5 May 2015
By J.D. Morris

Siena hotel-casino in Reno will change hands again

The view from a guest room in the Siena Hotel Spa Casino shows the Truckee River in Reno on Thursday, July 26, 2001.

Grand Siena LLC said it has agreed sell the eight-story, 214-room property on the Truckee River at an undisclosed price.

5 May 2015
The Associated Press

Death plot in Macau draws attention during Adelson testimony

Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson testifies at Clark County Justice Center on Tuesday, April 28, 2015, in Las Vegas. Steven Jacobs, former president of Sands Macau, is suing Sands China and Las Vegas Sands Corp. over a wrongful termination case.

Adelson says he and company president Michael Leven talked about ousting Jacobs before Leven headed to Macau for the face-to-face firing ...

5 May 2015
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press

‘Thank you for 60 wonderful years’: Guests, employees say farewell to the Riviera

11:06 a.m. - Workers secure the Crazy Girls sculpture to a truck at the Riviera Monday, May 4, 2015. The sculpture will be taken on tour up and down the Strip before eventually being installed at Planet Hollywood, said Nevada Nichols, technical director for Crazy Girls.

Although the hotel operations were still humming along in a largely normal fashion on Sunday, plenty of signs — literal ones — reminded guests that the end was near. One such sign by the check-in area states plainly that the Riviera closes at noon Monday ...

5 May 2015
By J.D. Morris

Analysis: Judge’s ruling that blocks Allegiant pilots from striking isn’t a surprise

Allegiant Air pilots picket in front of the Allegiant Air headquarters in Summerlin on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015.

Airline pilots face more barriers than almost any other set of U.S. workers to legally go on strike, experts say, and such walkouts rarely occur. One lasted just minutes before ...

5 May 2015
By Eli Segall

Venezuelan rum industry succeeding despite country’s woes

In this Thursday, March 26, 2015 photo, bottles of Santa Teresa "Gran Reserva" rum move along the assembly line at the factory in La Victoria, Aragua State, Venezuela. The local industry is benefiting from a larger rum renaissance, as the spirit ditches its association with drunken sailors and joins the ranks of liquors fussed over by connoisseurs.

Ever since he was a young man, one of Guillermo Matos' small pleasures has been a mid-month round of cocktails with friends ...

4 May 2015
By Jorge Rueda, Associated Press

Adelson denies Las Vegas execs had hand in Macau CEO firing

Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson testifies at Clark County Justice Center on Tuesday, April 28, 2015, in Las Vegas. Steven Jacobs, former president of Sands Macau, is suing Sands China and Las Vegas Sands Corp. over a wrongful termination case.

Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson spent an entire day Monday denying that Las Vegas Sands officials had a hand in firing Steven Jacobs as Sands China Ltd. president in July 2010 ...

4 May 2015
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press

CityCenter settlement boosts MGM’s first-quarter profit

Jim Murren, Chairman and CEO of MGM Resorts International and chairman of the American Gaming Association, discusses key points after announcing the launching of a "national voting initiative in key presidential election states," during a press conference at Aristocrat Technologies on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015.

MGM Resorts International CEO Jim Murren said the company is still counting all the money earned from the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight it just hosted. Results will wait until the company makes its second-quarter report, though ...

4 May 2015
By Kimberly Pierceall, Associated Press

Six decades later, Las Vegas says goodbye to historic Riviera

Crystal Mebame, Krissy Lee and Brittany Perkins of Baltimore look at a photo on a phone after posing by the Crazy Girls sculpture Monday, May 4, 2015, in front of the Riviera. The Riviera closes its doors at noon today.

The Riviera closed at noon in advance of its eventual demolition. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, which agreed to pay $182.5 million to buy the property in February, will replace the historic hotel-casino with more convention space ...

4 May 2015
By J.D. Morris

In Congress, income inequality comes with breakfast, lunch

Abraham Tesfahun, 21, who works in food service at the Senate and makes $10.70 an hour, poses for a portrait at the Capitol in Washington on Friday, May 1, 2015.

Income inequality is more than a political sound bite to workers in the Capitol. It's their life. Many of the Capitol's food servers, who make the meals, bus the tables and run the cash registers in the restaurants and carryouts that serve lawmakers, earn less than $11 an hour. Some make nothing at all when Congress is in recess.

4 May 2015
By Charles Babington and Laurie Kellman, Associated Press

Las Vegas: ‘The implosions capital of the world’

The Gramercy real estate project implodes its 9-story residential tower Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015, in Las Vegas.

Las Vegas is back in the implosion business, picking up where it left off after a string of iconic resorts were brought down with explosives from 1993 to 2007. A quiet post-recessionary period followed in which implosions were limited to such structures as ...

4 May 2015
By Ric Anderson

Cable, pay-per-view problems leave viewers fighting mad

Manny Pacquiao, from the Philippines, right, hits Floyd Mayweather Jr. during their welterweight title fight on Saturday, May 2, 2015 in Las Vegas.

For some boxing fans, the big fight Saturday night turned out to be between them and their cable companies.

3 May 2015
By Scott Mayerowitz, Associated Press

The pride of volunteering: Small businesses give back

Jim and Anita Ziegler of Sandstone Photography volunteer their time to take free photos of select graduating seniors who otherwise couldn’t afford to have them taken.

The Clark County School District’s School Community Partnership program serves as a matchmaker for companies small and large that want to offer time, talent or treasures to local youths ...

3 May 2015
By Monica Medrano

Why one entrepreneur chose the mobile flooring business

Susan Liu owns Floor Covering International in Las Vegas and has a mobile office with samples to bring to potential customers.

Susan Liu went from owning a restaurant to a general contractor for more than a decade. Now she provides flooring solutions a franchise owner of a mobile flooring business ...

3 May 2015
By VEGAS INC Staff

When cookie-cutter kitchens won’t do, have it custom designed and fabricated

Bill Blazvick owns Royal Metal Works, a kitchen equipment services company that has done work for Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace, Jaleo at the Cosmopolitan, Twin Creeks Steakhouse at Silverton and Hank’s Fine Steaks at Green Valley Ranch, among other restaurants and resorts.

Royal Metal Works is a full-service commercial kitchen equipment service with design/consulting, purchasing, fabrication, installation, refrigeration installation and repair ...

3 May 2015
By VEGAS INC Staff

Guest column: Ethics education has a place, even in Sin City

Business ethics simply is the application of ethics to business situations. When most people think of Las Vegas, they think of hospitality, or more specifically, gaming. Those who work in the hospitality industry interact constantly with other people. Therefore, the study of values in dealing with others, and the ways these values affect behavior, is very much relevant ...

3 May 2015
Joseph Gilbert

The Data: May 3-9

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3 May 2015
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