While Ted Binion and his notorious death dominated headlines 20 years ago, the Binion family has been a Southern Nevada institution for more than 70 — and nearly as notorious.
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.
As bullish as Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel Co. is on its planned $600 million Sunseeker resort in Florida, don’t expect the company to build anything like it in Southern Nevada.
If Southern Nevada were to form an organization to attract marquee sporting events to Las Vegas, it would need to consider whether attracting an event might displace a long-term major existing convention or trade show.
The last puzzle pieces for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s $935.1 million expansion fell into place Tuesday and construction equipment should begin moving into place on the site within days.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s seven-member compensation committee has recommended an annual salary of $375,000 plus benefits for its new CEO, Steve Hill.
The state Gaming Control Board wants its nearly 3,000 licensees to assure it is addressing workplace sexual harassment.
Executives with the Oakland Raiders have to be pretty happy with the outcome of last week’s Clark County Commission meeting at which their Las Vegas stadium parking plan was accepted — and embraced — by every commissioner.
The cost of the new Las Vegas Convention Center expansion will be higher than originally estimated, but should be manageable through cost contingencies andpossible scale-backs of some features, a special oversight group was told Thursday.
Commissioners unanimously accepted the event parking plan for thousands of spaces within about five miles of the stadium at Russell Road and Interstate 15.
Ultimate Collision Repair is expected to open its fourth Southern Nevada location in December at North Fifth Street and Centennial Parkway.
A subsidiary of Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel Co. has hired a longtime MGM Resorts International food and beverage executive to head the food operation of the company’s planned Sunseeker Resort in Florida.
Foxwoods and the nearby Mohegan Sun tribal casino are the two biggest competitors to MGM Springfield, which opened its doors in Massashusetts Aug. 24, and Encore Boston Harbor, being built by Wynn Resorts Ltd.
Competing with the larger Foxwoods hotel-casino operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe about 20 minutes away, Mohegan Sun will face new competitivepressures with last month’s opening of MGM Springfield in Massachusetts and next June’s planned opening of Encore Boston Harbor.
It’s game on for a new era of casino competition in New England.
The $2.5 billion luxury hotel under construction in the Boston suburb of Everett has been at the center of controversy since February when former Wynn Resorts Ltd. Chairman and CEO Steve Wynn resigned.