The acquisition, expected to be completed by the second half of 2025, is expected to connect a wealthy high-end international clientele to Wynn Al Marjan Island.
Richard N. Velotta
Assistant Business Editor
Email: rvelotta@reviewjournal.com
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Richard N. “Rick” Velotta has covered business, the gaming industry, tourism, transportation and aviation in Las Vegas for 25 years. A former reporter and editor with the Las Vegas Sun, the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff and the Aurora (Colo.) Sun, Velotta is a graduate of Northern Arizona University where he won the school’s top journalism honor. He became the Review-Journal's assistant business editor in September 2018.
A trial date was set for a lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who collapsed and died while playing a slot machine at a Las Vegas Strip casino.
Win numbers were expected to be down as a result of attendance at November’s Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix not being as large as the inaugural race in 2023.
Delta CEO Ed Bastian had star power, multiple partnership announcements and a digital fireworks display at the Sphere before thousands of CES attendees.
Additionally, members of Culinary Union Local 226 recently voted to ratify a labor contract at a Strip casino-hotel.
Just over a year after Durango first opened its doors in southwest Las Vegas, operators Station Casinos have begun building a new parking garage and casino expansion.
More than 5,000 media members have registered for this year’s CES, and many of them attended the opening event, “CES Unveiled,” at Mandalay Bay on Sunday.
Technology companies from around the world will be in Las Vegas to show off their innovations and explain how people’s lives can improve with high tech.
An increased law enforcement presence continued across Las Vegas, a day after a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump International.
While visitation was up slightly and the city is on track for more visits this year than in 2023, other key tourism indicators fell from Formula One-boosted records.
The lighter-than-last-year level of arrivals for the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix in November had a big impact on domestic flights, but international stays strong.
The Culinary Union strike that started on Nov. 15 is still underway, coming after months of negotiations over a new contract for Virgin’s non-gaming Culinary members.
Two of the biggest court cases of the year involved gaming companies against each other with Aristocrat battling Light & Wonder and Wynn against Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
It’s going to be 2027 before the Las Vegas room inventory gets back to where it was before the Tropicana and The Mirage closed their doors in 2024.
While New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts and Arizona have higher sports betting handles, the average Nevadan bets the most among U.S. counterparts.
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