The remodeling of the 8-year-old luxury boutique hotel will draw inspiration from kintsugi, the centuries-old Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted with gold,
Colton Lochhead
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Colton Lochhead covers pot and politics for the Review-Journal, where he started as an intern covering crime and breaking news in 2012. Raised in Las Vegas, the life-long desert rat graduated from Bonanza High School before earning his journalism degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
“Life is not back to full time wine and roses, but we’re certainly heading in a good direction,” said Marcus Prater, executive director of Las Vegas-based Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers.
The latest and greatest offerings in slot machines were on full display this week as gaming manufacturers gathered in Las Vegas for the industry’s largest trade show.
A Dallas-based company is planning to build a new 92,000-square-foot golf entertainment venue just north of The Strat.
The sports betting world is in midst of another flurry of billion dollar-plus consolidation moves that are shaking up the industry, a trend that isn’t expected to slow down anytime soon.
DraftKings is planning to open in new office in Las Vegas that includes its own casino pit, a high-tech putting green and more.
UNLV Incubator is envisioned as a place “where ideas will be incubated into companies of the future,” said hub director and UNLV professor Robert Rippee said Wednesday of the space in the Hughes Center.
MGM Resorts International announced that MGM Japan, along with its joint-venture partner ORIX, has been selected by Osaka as the region’s integrated resort partner.
The Blackstone Group has reached an agreement to sell The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in a deal valued at $5.65 billion, with MGM Resorts International acquiring the resort operations for $1.625 billion.
For hotels, resorts and the hospitality industry at large, the new era of higher-tech and lower-touch ushered in by the COVID-19 pandemic is likely here to stay.
DraftKings is making a $20 billion push to acquire MGM Resorts International’s British partner in BetMGM, a sports betting and online gaming platform.
In addition to the restaurant, an expansion of the Nobu brand through its partnership with Caesars Entertainment includes a multimillion-dollar update for Caesars’ Nobu Hotel and plans for Nobu Hotels at Harrah’s New Orleans and Caesars Atlantic City.
The U.S. on Monday announced plans to ease international airline travel restrictions to allow vaccinated foreign nationals to once again travel to the country starting this fall.
Caesars Entertainment is expected to break ground on Caesars Virginia before the end of 2021. It is slated to open in late 2023, the company said in a release Thursday.
A QAnon-linked group appears to have found a new home for its Las Vegas convention — one with no shortage of right-wing political ties and controversy.
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