Construction on the high-speed rail project between Las Vegas and Southern California could get underway in early 2020 if tax exempt bonds are approved for the project.
Tourism
The 315,000-square-foot Expo at World Market Center Las Vegas will start to go vertical next month with a grand opening in time for next year’s Summer Market.
Thanks to an upturn in baccarat, June gaming win climbed statewide and on the Strip.
A monthly record of 4.5 million passenger at McCarran International Airport in June keeps 2019 on pace to surpass 2018’s annual passenger record of 49.7 million passengers.
Analysts heaped praise on MGM Resorts International CEO Jim Murren after last weeks’ earnings conference call in which the big takeaway was that MGM 2020 is working.
Southwest Airlines will withdraw from Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, in November and consolidate its New York operations at LaGuardia Airport.
The deep-discount airline, which has owned golf-course-management software firm Teesnap since 2013, is also developing a 22-acre riverfront resort in Florida.
The nearly $50 million Boring Co. underground people-mover project will link riders between the convention center’s exhibit hall to the south exhibit hall.
An audit that cost taxpayers $186,000 has come under fire from police, who question the thoroughness of its examination into the misuse of airline gift cards bought by the LVCVA.
After a successful run last year American Airlines is again offering direct flights between Tokyo and Las Vegas for CES.
Former Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority CEO Rossi Ralenkotter handed out airline gift cards bought by the tax-funded agency as holiday gifts in December 2016, a court document shows.
The LVCVA’s former chief marketing officer has agreed to pay $8,700 in fines for violating the state ethics law over her personal use of airline gift cards bought by the agency.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has appointed two people to the Las Vegas Local Organizing Committee, set to help plan for the NFL 2020 draft in Las Vegas.
The current construction phase is about 32 percent complete, CEO Steve Hill said at the LVCVA board meeting Tuesday morning.
Las Vegas is betting big on 2020, when more than 15 projects — ranging from a stadium to hotel-casino renovations — are slated to come online.