'It's a good sign for Vegas that Resorts World is finally going to start to move forward,' Howard Stutz, gaming columnist with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, told KNPR's State of Nevada on Wednesday.
But, the work is scheduled to begin one day after the Riviera Hotel and Casino is closed to make way for an expansion of the Las Vegas Convention Center. The news of shovels moving dirt on May 5 on Resorts World Las Vegas is good news for the northend of the Strip. The project could eventually include multiple hotels and some 5,000 to 6,000 hotel rooms. The first phase of Resorts World Las Vegas will include 3,000 hotel rooms and a casino with a combined 3,500 slot machines and table games.
No official timeline has been released due to the size of the project, but it's expected to be built in multiple stages. The construction process will take several years. The development - Resorts World Las Vegas - on the former Echelon site has been in planning for two years, with Genting now set to break ground on May 5, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Genting spent $350 million to acquire the 80-plus acre site. The site of the Echelon on the northend of the Strip, with its naked steel beams and half-poured concrete, has been an eyesore for almost seven years.īut Malaysia-based Genting Group says its prepared to move forward now on a $4 billion project on the site they bought from Boyd Gaming in March 2013.
