Work on Resorts World technically began March 13, 2007, when the Stardust, a 32-story, 1,500-room resort owned by Boyd Gaming Corp., was imploded to make way for that company’s Echelon resort.īoyd started the Echelon project, but with the financial effects of the Great Recession hitting the company hard, it opted to sell the 87 acres of Strip property and the beginnings of the Echelon infrastructure to the Malaysia-based Genting Group for $350 million in March 2013. “So we selected this date knowing that it would give us a little time to prepare for the Fourth of July.” We were always committed to getting this property open this summer, but we felt really that it was so important to us to get open by the Fourth of July because we really think this is going to to be the biggest Fourth of July the city has seen in a long time, especially with all the positive news we all are hearing.”

“We never stopped building through this pandemic. “We wanted to get open as quickly as we could,” Sibella said. He said 95 percent of the resort would be open on June 24, including hotel rooms and suites, more than 40 food and beverage outlets, 70,000 square feet of retail space and a 117,000-square-foot casino.Īn estimated 100,000 applications were filled out for jobs at Resort World and by opening day, roughly 5,000 employees, including 500 managers, will be working.

Sibella said the company is still planning details of the resort’s opening, including what time the doors will open, but he expects an invitation-only VIP event would precede the public opening. “We’ve been optimistic that things would get better (in Las Vegas) and the news we’re hearing is really great for us and we hope by the time we open on June 24, everything may not be back to normal but at least close to getting past this pandemic,” he said. “We always said we’re going to open this summer and on budget and I’m happy to say that will happen,” said Scott Sibella, president of Resorts World Las Vegas. The $4.3 billion, 3,500-room integrated resort - the first Strip property to open in more than a decade - began taking reservations Monday morning through its call center and its affiliations with three premium Hilton Hotels brands. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal) World Las Vegas will open its doors to the public June 24.

An aerial photo of Resorts World Las Vegas under construction on the former site of the Stardust hotel casino on Thursday, March 11, 2021.

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