In this week’s Green Felt Journal, I take a look at how the proposed Resorts World Las Vegas differs from the project it replaced: When Resorts World Las Vegas rises from the abandoned husk of Echelon on the north Strip, it will be very different from what Echelon would have been. And the differences tell […]
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Vegas SevenWith Genting’s purchase of Boyd’s Echelon site on the Strip and proposed construction of Resorts World Las Vegas, a lot of Vegas-based people have asked where the company comes from. Luckily, Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling has the whole Genting story.
The company got it start in 1964, when Lim Goh Tong began building a hotel at a spot “above the clouds” 45 miles from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. When he received a franchise to offer casino gaming five years later, things really got going.
Genting Highlands developed, over the next 40 years, into a six hotel, 8,000-room resort, and the company today operates casinos in other markets, including the United Kingdom, the Philippines, Singapore, and New York City—the latter three are under the Resorts World name.
Learn more about Genting and other gaming companies in Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling.
Go here to read an excerpt from the book, or learn where to buy your copy.
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fromthebookI don’t have much time today–I’m off to Mandalay Bay for the LV Marathon expo–but this is newsworthy: Singapore awarded its second casino resort contract Friday to Genting International, whose proposal of a venture worth 5.2 billion Singapore dollars is intended to lure thousands of visitors with a Universal Studios theme park and a huge
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