Wynn Las Vegas News - Page 25

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

JCM American has supplied a total currency solution to the new Wynn Las Vegas.

Warning shareholders not to judge the long-term performance of his resort based on its opening weekend, Steve Wynn nevertheless dropped several hints at the company's annual stockholders meeting Monday to suggest that his new resort was off to a good start.

For the first time since becoming a publicly traded company, the shareholders of Wynn Resorts Ltd. were able to hold their annual meeting in a building that was producing revenue toward their investment.

Conventional wisdom holds that last week's opening of developer Steve Wynn's newest project will spark new hotel development and economic growth. However, some industry experts say Wynn is joining the growth wave, not causing it.

So much for Vanity Fair's exclusive on the first photographic images from inside the $2.7 billion Wynn Las Vegas. The high-end monthly magazine has been scooped by Joann Stabile of New York City with a digital camera.

Saturday brings the debut of Franco Dragone's fourth Las Vegas opus, ‘Le Reve -- A Small Collection of Imperfect Dreams.’

A Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority official says that Wynn Las Vegas is expected to be a significant player in the meetings and convention market.

Wynn Las Vegas aims to attract the world's wealthiest travelers, people who avoid big Las Vegas casinos for the likes of a Four Seasons or a Ritz Carlton.

Technological innovations and architectural marvels abound at Wynn Las Vegas.

Observers are watching with eager anticipation the curtain rising on two new production shows Steve Wynn is bringing to Las Vegas to enhance his new resort.

Wynn Las Vegas, Steve Wynn's $2.7 billion megaresort, opened to a crush of at least 10,000 people after the stroke of midnight today in time to celebrate his wife Elaine's birthday.

Union organizers were able to get a majority of the cocktail servers, bartenders, maids, porters and food service workers at Wynn Las Vegas to agree to join the union, Arte Nathan, chief human resources officer of Wynn Las Vegas, said.

Even though Las Vegas developer Steve Wynn is building the most expensive resort ever, few industry insiders and experts are betting against him being able to make a profit on his new megaresort.

Unlike Steve Wynn's previous hotel unveilings, when man-made volcanoes, dancing water fountains, pirate battles and pyrotechnic building implosions signaled a new beginning, the lifting of the wall of silence surrounding the $2.7 billion Wynn Las Vegas won't be any more than a simple countdown on the resort's marquee.

The real Steve Wynn is a street fighter who has had to orchestrate comebacks from calamities that would have flattened lesser operators.

Guests paying either $7,500 or $1,500 will get the first look at the $2.7 billion Wynn Las Vegas as part of a charity fund-raiser Wednesday evening.

It's the fourth week of April, and all eyes are fixed on the Strip for the long-awaited debut of Las Vegas' latest playground for the fabulous, rich and famous

Wynn has again changed the look of the Las Vegas skyline with the resort's 50-story, curved tower covered in bronze glass.

Wynn Las Vegas opens to the public in less than nine days, and the inside of the $2.7 billion megaresort already looks spectacular.