John Hunt grew up in the shadow of the old Showboat casino and got his first hotel job there in the early 1990s, working as a kitchen runner. Some 30 years later, Hunt is now living at the site of the former resort as one of the first residents of the Showboat Park Apartments ...
Resort planning quiet opening during pandemic, big party later
Friday, March 19, 2021
The opening of a new or rebranded casino in Las Vegas is typically an over-the-top celebration with fireworks, bands and people lined up to get in. But the ...
Hyatt Hotels Corp. plans to remodel the Rio’s roughly 2,500 rooms and rebrand the off-Strip resort under the Hyatt brand. The Rio’s gaming, retail, restaurant, spa ...
Circa Sports is branching out in the Las Vegas Valley. The Derek Stevens sportsbook brand will debut books at the off-Strip Tuscany and the Pass, which is expected to be taking bets ...
The former Eldorado Casino in Henderson is scheduled to open in April, according to a news release. The remodeled downtown property, which will be called The Pass ...
At least one Las Vegas gaming company has expressed interest in operating a proposed casino in Chicago. Wynn Resorts was among several Las Vegas-based ...
In 2017, Leanne Duong-Ma quit her corporate day job to focus full time on the business she had started four years earlier. Her company, Direct Source Procurement, was growing ...
Flavortown is mobile. Restaurateur Guy Fieri has teamed with a company called Virtual Dining Concepts to offer delivery of a select number of menu items from his branded eateries ...
When casinos reopened in June after the coronavirus shutdown, a number of poker rooms in Las Vegas remained dark, and it seems likely some will never return to action. The pandemic has wiped out about a third of an already dwindling number of poker tables in Clark County, mostly in ...
The Las Vegas Valley existing home market continues to be unflinchingly in seller’s territory. Aldo Martinez, president of the Las Vegas Realtors trade group, said there was less than a one-month supply of preowned homes on the market at the end of February. A six-month supply is ...
“A $6 billion investment in a market is a vote of confidence,” said Don Snyder, the former UNLV president. “Apollo is a smart investor. They understand what ...
Three players hit six-figure jackpots in recent days on a slot machine and table games in Las Vegas. Last week, a woman from Texas playing a Wheel of Fortune slot machine at ...
Omer Sattar, executive vice president and co-founder of Sightline Payments, anticipates that three out of every four casinos in the United States will offer some form of ...
MGM Resorts International is opening its Las Vegas resort swimming pools Monday. The list includes the Bellagio’s adults-only Mediterranean pool, along with pools at ...
Tom Reeg, the chief executive officer of Caesars Entertainment, has seen the social media and blog posts saying Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas is for sale.
Here’s a chance to purchase a Las Vegas tattoo shop for $50 — well, sort of. Caleb Cashew has decided to unload his Black Omen Tattoo business through a raffle process by selling 11x14 original works of art made by ...
As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, passenger numbers at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas have remained significantly below pre-pandemic levels. McCarran recorded just over ...
Las Vegas now has a car vending machine. Carvana, an online used car retailer, will debut its glass-encased, 11-story car vending machine structure just off Interstate 15 near the Strip this morning. The building, which lights up at dusk, has garnered the attention of passersby on the highway for weeks, though ...
The Cosmopolitan earlier this month began accepting nominations for its heroes giveaway promotion, which will provide 11 people with complimentary stays at the Strip resort, along with other prizes. Ten winners will receive a two-night stay in ...
When the El Cortez changed the carpet on its gaming floor January as part of ongoing renovations, officials sensed customers would be interested in having pieces of the matting pattern as memorabilia and made it for sale in the gift shop.
Cubicall is “a great example of the kinds of innovative businesses that are now calling greater Las Vegas home due to quality of life, cost and opportunity.”
MGM Resorts International became an early partner with PlayStudios, which creates free-to-play mobile and social platform casino games in which players can earn Las Vegas comps ...
Many operations in the Las Vegas Valley have had a rough go during the pandemic, but one locals casino operator has identified a consistent silver lining.
In the side parking lot of the old Eldorado Casino site in Henderson’s Water Street District lay what’s left of the sign that used to hang on the back entrance of the property. New ownership is modernizing the building in a $5 million renovation, and that starts by ...
A well-funded real estate firm has announced a deal to acquire a stalled casino-resort development on the north end of the Strip. Koch Real Estate Investments, an arm of Koch Industries, said it is teaming with Fontainebleau Development to complete the Drew Las Vegas, a long-planned ...
Many of the participants looked to be in their 20s, with others likely encroaching middle age. All were there for an introductory virtual class on cybersecurity, the first installment in a 40-hour course on the subject that’s part of a new noncredit cybersecurity “boot camp” offered through UNLV’s Continuing Education department.
Many would-be air travelers are hesitant to fly on commercial flights during the pandemic out of social-distancing concerns, realizing the risk of sitting for an extended period of time next to someone potentially carrying the virus isn’t worth the risk.
A Las Vegas man won over $905,000 on a slot machine at an off-Strip casino this week. David Frys, a regular at Ellis Island, hit the Buffalo Grand jackpot on ...
Lori Calderon has looked through so many job applications that she often finds herself evaluating potential hires for Resorts World on her personal time. “We’re waking up at night sometimes and taking notes, I’m doing that myself,” said Calderon, the Resorts World executive director of ...
Potential home buyers and those looking to refinance their mortgage shouldn’t expect interest rates to increase much in 2021, according to experts. “Most likely, interest rates will gradually rise as the economy begins to strengthen in the spring and summer.”
Las Vegas Sands Corp. posted a fourth-quarter loss of $299 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier, as the casino and resort operator saw its ...
Las Vegan Chin Li Kuok seems to always be looking for the next outdoor adventure. One of her favorite places is Jackson Hole, Wyo., an outdoors-lover’s paradise and a longtime favorite American vacation destination for those who like skiing and open spaces ...
A pair of out-of-town gamblers won big over the weekend while visiting Las Vegas, hitting jackpots for a combined $370,000. On Friday, a gambler from Utah made a seven-card straight flush while ...
Many drive-in visitors to Las Vegas are familiar with the rush to get on the road to return home Sunday afternoon, knowing that delays in leaving will translate to hours stuck in freeway traffic. And many can attest to the helpless feeling of ...
With people cooped up at home because of the pandemic, mobile sports betting has skyrocketed in popularity, Las Vegas sportsbook operators say. “Mobile is where it’s at,” said Jay Kornegay of the Westgate SuperBook.
Many people remember watching celebrities like Muhammad Ali or Elvis Presley on their living room TVs in the 1970s. Lorenzo Doumani remembers watching them in his living room. Growing up the son of a Las Vegas casino landlord ...
The first signs of widespread tourist demand returning for Las Vegas aren’t quite visible, but several experts who track visitation trends say they’re ready to bubble up this year.
In baseball, coaches often remind young hitters to forget their last strikeout when they step back up to the plate. Michael Eshragh, an assistant baseball coach at the College of Southern Nevada, applied the same mindset as ...
While playing poker at the South Point, A.C. Florez of Las Vegas decided to take a quick lunch break. Whenever he plays at the off-Strip casino — three or four times a week, usually — he’s sure to stop at South Point’s popular hot dog cart, a few steps from ...
Casino owner Derek Stevens has talked a lot in recent months about downtown’s newest resort, Circa Las Vegas. Today, he reflected on its oldest, the Golden Gate ...
Video conferencing meetings have skyrocketed and "people are looking at themselves from a camera positioned below them, often with poor lighting. You can see a lot of things you don’t like.”
Las Vegas developer Lorenzo Doumani hopes a planned off-Strip resort will attract a wide range of customers, especially tech companies in town for conventions.
An already tight Las Vegas-area housing market became even more condensed last month, according to a report released today. Continuing a trend seen during the pandemic, the number of ...
The owner of a small Las Vegas casino has created a system for players to quickly establish a line of credit and access it directly at a slot machine with their rewards card. Gary Ellis, the namesake of Ellis Island, created ...
Strip craps dealer Chris Cole completed a three-month program at the National Technical Institute in Henderson to become a heating and air conditioning technician.