Las Vegas Business News

Station Casinos opens doors on Durango Resort, its next generation of luxury

A look at the high limit gaming area inside the new Durango Casino & Resort Monday Dec. 4, 2023

Patrons who step into the new Durango Resort for the initial time should notice something distinct: It’s bright. Between the natural light flowing into the $780 million resort on Durango Drive and ...

5 December 2023

By Ray Brewer

After accident took his mobility, Vegas entrepreneur's career really started moving

Scott Frost, CEO and co-founder of Titan Brands Hospitality Group, poses at Hussongs Cantina in the Shoppes at Mandalay Place Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023.

Scott Frost’s advice to fellow entrepreneurs: Be willing to fail, to take criticism and learn from others, then make incremental improvements to eventually reach success.

4 December 2023

By Katie Ann McCarver

Here’s to the small-business owners, who take the risks, make the mistakes and come through the other side shining

As a small-business owner, accolades, words of support and thank-yous—if any—are few and far between. At times, it can be an intensely lonely existence. Let’s try to rectify that. At least for 800 words or so.

4 December 2023

By D.J. Allen

The Notes: Philanthropy, Dec. 4, 2023

In the Notes: Las Vegas Super Bowl LVIII Host Committee, Nathan Adelson Hospice, Miracle Flights, Shell USA, Green Valley Grocery and more ...

4 December 2023

By VEGAS INC Staff

MGM exec returning to Las Vegas as president of Mandalay Bay, Luxor

A view of the Mandalay Bay Friday, July 24, 2015.

Travis Lunn, president and COO of the Borgata in New Jersey, is returning to Las Vegas in June as president of Mandalay Bay and Luxor, officials with the properties’ parent company ...

30 November 2023

By Las Vegas Sun Staff

Business community, lawmakers discuss ways to improve landscape for Nevada startups

Nevada Assemblyman Steve Yeager, second left, responds to a question during a StartUpNV panel discussion on entrepreneurship and public policy at WeWork in Town Square Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. StartUpNV, a nonprofit statewide incubator and accelerator for Nevada-based startups, is sponsoring the Las Vegas edition of Techstars Startup Week, a five-day event held across the world to celebrate entrepreneurship and showcase the local startup community.

With the 2025 Nevada Legislature on the not-too-distant horizon, entrepreneurs and business owners are engaging state lawmakers about ...

29 November 2023

By Katie Ann McCarver

New Google geothermal electricity project could be a milestone for clean energy

Rig operators connect drills that will plunge underground to access heat reservoirs on Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023, near Milford, Utah. In Nevada, Fervo Energy's first operational project has begun pumping carbon-free electricity onto that state's electric grid to power Google data centers, Google announced Tuesday, Nov. 28. That pilot will help Fervo launch projects like this one in Utah to deliver far more carbon-free electricity to the grid.

An advanced geothermal project has begun pumping carbon-free electricity onto the Nevada grid to power Google data centers there, Google announced Tuesday. Getting electrons onto the grid for the first time is a milestone many new energy companies never ...

28 November 2023

By Jennifer McDermott, Associated Press

At UNLV, a first-of-its-kind Cannabis Policy Institute is up and running

Riana Durrett, at the time the executive director of the Nevada Dispensary Association, poses in this 2017 photo outside the Legislative Building in Carson City. Durrett is the inaugural director of the new Cannibas Policy Institute at UNLV. The institute will serve as a research hub for local, state, national and international cannabis policy, according to UNLV.

The institute will serve as a research hub for cannabis policy and “local, state, national and international implications for public policy, law, medicine, science, economics and ...

28 November 2023

By Grace Da Rocha

New app brings cryptocurrency assets to gaming floor

An advertisement of Bitcoin, one of the cryptocurrencies, is displayed on a building in Hong Kong, on Nov. 18, 2021.

A new product rolling out within the next year will utilize blockchain technology to provide casino patrons worldwide with casino chip access on the gaming floor, directly from their cryptocurrency or digital ...

27 November 2023

By Katie Ann McCarver

The Notes: Philanthropy, Nov. 27, 2023

In the Notes: Tom and Leslie Thomas, CORE, Howard Cole, Bank of America and more...

27 November 2023

By VEGAS INC Staff

New legislation seeks to drive development, create jobs at Apex Industrial Park

Dave Brown, president of Land Development Associates explains to Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto how the Apex construction site is made up of various warehouses across 7,000 acres, including a 885,000-square-foot Smith's distribution center currently under construction in North Las Vegas on Wednesday, July 5, 2023. Brian Ramos

Apex Industrial Park, the more than 7,000-acre swath of land in North Las Vegas set aside for manufacturing and development, is one step closer to fulfilling its promise to bolster the local economy by ...

26 November 2023

By Katie Ann McCarver

Virgin Hotels Las Vegas’ president ready to steer property into bright future

Virgin Hotels Las Vegas President Cliff Atkinson, a veteran of the hospitality industry who stepped into his current role about four months ago, said the property near the Las Vegas Strip is treating Formula One as it's "coming out party." Tuesday, November 13, 2023.

In August, Cliff Atkinson, a longtime leader in hospitality, stepped into the role of president of Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, which was formerly the Hard Rock Hotel and is part of Hilton’s Curio Collection. With two major events on Las Vegas’ calendar — Formula One’s inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix in November ..

21 November 2023

By Katie Ann McCarver

Veterans looking to become entrepreneurs get new resource in Nevada

Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, Head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, attends the grand opening of the Nevada Veterans Business Outreach Center Monday, Nov. 20, 2023.

Officials on Monday celebrated the grand opening of Nevada’s first Veterans Business Outreach Center, or VBOC, at the UNLV Technology Park in Spring Valley. It’s the 28th such center nationally ...

21 November 2023

By Casey Harrison

Caesars workers approve new contract; votes on MGM, Wynn coming this week

Union members listen to Ted Pappageorge, secretary-treasurer for the Culinary Workers Union, Local 226, during a break in contract negotiations between the union and Caesars Entertainment at the Horseshoe Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023.

Culinary Union Local 226 members who work for Caesars Entertainment properties are expected to ratify a contract this evening, union leadership said today. The vote ...

20 November 2023

By Hillary Davis

Budding farmers get a boost from Farm2Food program

Crystal León works in the kale bed at the Radish Hotel garden in Sparks.

Crystal León has been on the Nevada farming scene for nearly two decades, and currently runs the Radish Hotel—a micro farm and urban growing space in Sparks, where chickens, beekeeping, educational programs and other farm and apothecary products abound.

20 November 2023

By Katie Ann McCarver

People on the Move: Nov. 20, 2023

In the Notes: Roxo Brands, Vegas Baby Spirits, Brandon Roos, Michelle Romero, Dr. Sumit Gupta, Commercial Alliance Las Vegas and more ...

20 November 2023

By VEGAS INC Staff

For Formula One fans in Las Vegas, the experience goes beyond the racecourse

Amber Meranda from Indianapolis and Chris Algera from Chicago pose for a photo showing their Formula 1 driver friendship bracelets during the Formula 1 Heineken Silver Las Vegas Grand Prix Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. The pair hand out the bracelets, made by Meranda, to attendees during the race.

It was almost midnight Thursday when 12-year-old Ismael Amanullah and his family made it to the T-Mobile Zone at the Sphere. The family had arrived in Las Vegas ...

18 November 2023

By Grace Da Rocha

Las Vegas Realtor: F1 fever is fueling unprecedented surge in high-rise condo sales

The Las Vegas Grand Prix grandstands, paddock and final turn 17, from the 36th floor penthouse suite at The Signature at MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Sunday, November 12, 2023.

Prices for luxury units at the Signature “have increased anywhere from 30% to 50% depending on the type of unit” because of the race, Williams said. One unit, a 520-square-foot property listed for $320,000 ...

16 November 2023

By Grace Da Rocha

Las Vegas' iconic Bellagio gets a makeover for Formula One race

A view from the roof deck of the Bellagio Fountain Club, a viewing area for the Formula 1 race, is shown Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023.

Passersby should notice the iconic look of the Bellagio is looking completely different.

15 November 2023

By Emma Brocato

40 Under 40 Nominations are open

VEGAS INC’s 40 Under 40 awards honor young leaders in our community. Nominations for this prestigious award program are open now through November 27.