This week’s Green Felt Journal dissects the reality behind the numbers in the Gaming Abstract:
Each year, the Gaming Control Board releases a massive document that charts the performance of the state’s casinos for the previous fiscal year, broken down by geographic area and income. The release of the 2014 Nevada Gaming Abstract crystallizes the trends that have shaped the local gaming industry over the past year. Not surprisingly, the 23 Las Vegas Strip casinos that made more than $72 million in gaming revenue in 2014 are a critical piece of the state’s economic infrastructure: These large Strip properties represent more than half of Nevada’s gaming revenue and nearly two-thirds of the state’s total revenue (gaming and non-gaming combined). Let’s dive into the details:
via Nongaming Activities Continue to Pay the Bills for Strip Casinos | Vegas Seven
It will be interesting to see how things fared over the 2nd half of 2014, to say the least.