The approximately 1,000 laborers working multiple shifts are on time and on budget for the resort that will be downtown’s tallest at 458 feet and with 777 rooms.
Richard N. Velotta
Assistant Business Editor
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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.
Thanks to robust December convention attendance numbers — 60.6 percent ahead of the previous year — Las Vegas hosted a record 6.6 million people for meetings in 2019.
A 30-second version of Las Vegas’ “What happens here, only happens here” television ad will air prior to Sunday’s Super Bowl LIV.
Company Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson said the inside of his Macao casino “looks like an operating room” because employees are wearing protective masks.
In a bid to grow its customer base with a younger male demographic interested in sports wagering, Penn National Gaming announces partnership with Barstool Sports.
The interim director who has led Nevada’s Department of Tourism & Cultural Affairs since December 2018 has been named to the job permanently by Gov. Steve Sisolak.
Three consumer events, including a junior rodeo championship, have been scheduled at the Expo at World Market Center Las Vegas, which will debut at July’s Summer Market.
Two contractors for Allegiant Stadium operations were scheduled to spell out their hiring plans and one of them said miscommunication resulted in him not showing up.
The LVCVA on Sunday canceled the rollout of its newest advertising campaign activities after the sudden death of Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant.
After a second case of the Wuhan coronavirus surfaced in Macao, government leaders canceled three public events leading other companies to curtail their celebrations.
Gaming industry analysts got an early look at Station Casinos’ fourth-quarter revenue and cash-flow projections, thanks to an SEC filing, and liked the results.
The 600,000 people who attended the 2019 NFL Draft in Nashville had more communities to draw from — and some may have been counted more than once at the turnstiles.
Members of the Las Vegas Stadium Community Benefits Plan Oversight Committee weren’t happy that two stadium operations contractors failed to attend Thursday’s meeting.
MGM Resorts International has been named the official gaming partner of the Las Vegas Raiders.
Corporate changes continue as Dave Williams, who headed Apple Inc.’s Claris FileMaker division, will become Penn National Gaming’s chief financial officer in March.
