High atop the list of gaming companies to keep an eye on is Eldorado Resorts, a Reno company that has quietly become a force in the regional gaming industry.
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.
While most of the focus on the planned $1.8 billion, 65,000-seat Las Vegas stadium is focused on the construction site at Interstate 15 and Russell Road, the Las Vegas Stadium Authority continues to monitor agreements it has reached with the stadium’s builders, the Oakland Raiders.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors on Thursday approved a $359.8 million operating budget that also continues the process of building a $1.4 billion expansion to the Las Vegas Convention Center.
The stadium authority board unanimously approved a $546.3 million budget for the 2018-19 fiscal year and a collection of amended agreements designed to better account for funding of the $1.8 billion, 65,000-seat indoor stadium under construction at Interstate 15 and Russell Road.
The presidential debate staged at the Thomas Mack Center on Oct. 19, 2016, produced media value estimated at $114 million. Assigning a value to this miracle season of the Vegas Golden Knights is a bit more complicated.
IGT, the world’s dominant slot-machine manufacturer, is ready to jump into the promising sports-wagering business in the United States.
The new 30- and 60-second “Only Vegas Moments” ads were produced by Las Vegas-based RR Partners, the authority’s advertising consultant, and were cut from a series of short YouTube movies about “adult freedom.”
As the dust settles on this past week’s historic Supreme Court announcement involving sports wagering — which everybody was fully expecting, by the way — we’re starting to see how plans to capitalize on nationwide sports wagering will shake out.
A new Las Vegas Strip concert venue is slated to offer guests technology that will allow them to feel the music.
You thought you only found card sharks in casinos. Don’t be alarmed when you’re confronted with a 13-foot tiger shark prominently displayed at the Unknown, the Palms’ new center bar that opened Thursday night.
Can a gaming licensee lease a building from a businessman who also rents to someone in the marijuana business? Yes, the Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously determined Thursday.
Hilton’s Waldorf Astoria luxury brand expects to plant its flag on the Strip when it takes over operation of the 392-room Mandarin Oriental at CityCenter in August.
Wynn Resorts CEO Matt Maddox assured company shareholders Wednesday that the company’s best days are ahead of it with growth in Las Vegas and Macau on the horizon and no plans to sell its under-construction Boston project.
Policymakers in several states, executives at some Las Vegas companies and potential bettors across the country are moving toward capitalizing on what is being touted as a landmark decision for the gaming industry.
Wynn Resorts Ltd.’s recent addition of three women to its board of directors is only the beginning of the company’s cultural diversity movement.