Las Vegas Sands Corp. reported a profitable second quarter Wednesday, with Chief Operating Officer Rob Goldstein calling it “the best” second quarter in company history — “and if not, close to it.”
Richard N. Velotta
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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.
The property, operated by TLC Casino Enterprises, will open 81 of the more than 350 rooms shuttered at Binion’s in 2009 during the Great Recession.
The Madison Square Garden Company is giving its first glimpse of the future of live performance with a tour of the MSG Sphere at the Venetian site on Tuesday.
The gaming industry is still buzzing about last month’s announcement that Eldorado Resorts Inc. of Reno is looking to buy Caesars Entertainment Corp. for $17.3 billion.
The American Gaming Association will place a strong emphasis on research to tell the industry’s story as gaming expands and matures worldwide.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. shareholders have elected eight people — four with ties to top investor Carl Icahn — to the company’s board of directors on Tuesday.
Highways and airports will be jammed and Las Vegas is expected to be busy with 330,000 people visiting for the Fourth of July holiday this week.
The opening of Encore Boston Harbor and Eldorado Resorts’ announcement of a planned $17.3 billion acquisition of Caesars Entertainment made for a big Sunday news cycle.
While gaming industry observers applaud SLS Las Vegas’ name change to Sahara, they also acknowledge that owner Alex Meruelo has plenty of work ahead of him.
For the next three years, Matt Maddox will have somebody looking over his shoulder on day-to-day operations of the new resort as part of a settlement reached by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission in April and agreed to by the company in May.
With the opening of Encore Boston Harbor in the rear-view mirror, Wynn Resorts CEO Matt Maddox can turn his attention to what’s next for the Las Vegas-based casino operator.
SLS Las Vegas owner Alex Meruelo has taken the Strip resort full circle, renaming the 1,720-room property Sahara Las Vegas in a flashy evening unveiling event.
Paul Anderson, the former executive director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, is joining Boyd Gaming Corp. as a senior vice president.
Vegas Nation Stadium Show host Ed Graney talks to business reporter Rick Velotta, who recently got a tour of the Las Vegas Stadium, and they go over all of the updates on the project.
A record passenger count at McCarran International Airport boosted tourism in May, but gaming numbers continued to lag on the Strip and statewide.
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