Genting Group opens its newest resort on Thursday, a US$4.3 billion extravaganza in Las Vegas and the biggest new property on the city’s famous Strip in over a decade, Bloomberg reports.
Resorts World Las Vegas features 3,500 hotel rooms, a 5,000-seat theater with Celine Dion in residency and a 100,000-square-foot LED screen on the side of one tower.
There’s a pop-up store selling clothing from the Kardashian family’s closets and a speak-easy called the Here Kitty Kitty Vice Den.
“There’s something here for everybody, basically, a city within a city,” said Scott Sibella, a former MGM Resorts International executive now serving as president of the casino.
The new property is a shot in the arm for America’s gambling capital, which was closed for three months last year due to the coronavirus, and where visitor numbers in April were still 27 percent below the same month in 2019.
It is also a milestone for Genting, the Malaysian travel and leisure giant, which has had mixed luck with some of its other casino projects in the U.S.
“When they’ve wanted to go bold and big, they haven’t had a big success rate,” Chad Beynon, an analyst with Macquarie Securities, said of Genting’s U.S. ambitions.
