CityCenter, Las Vegas Strip: A $9.4 Billion Dollar Development, On track to open in 2009. MGM Mirage's new CityCenter is the most expensive privately funded commercial development in US History. All due to open in late 2009: CityCenter Casino, Convention Center, Retail Mall, 6 Adjacent High Rise Towers, Parking.

Plaza Las Vegas, Las Vegas Strip: $5 Billion, Opens 2011/2012. A multi use luxury hotel and casino, private residences, and shopping mall.

Echelon, Las Vegas Strip: $4.8 Billion, A 5,300 room hotel and casino, meeting rooms, 650,000 square feet convention space, retail stores. Five hotels on the Las Vegas Strip,  separate porte-cochere areas. To include a curving 2,500 room Hotel Echelon, a 640 hotel suites at Echelon, a thin 350 room Shangri La, the 860 room Mondrian hotel and 550 room Delano hotel. Each of the hotels will have their own pools, and spas. On August 1, 2008, construction of Echelon was halted until 2009 due to current national economic conditions. Boyd Gaming, Echelon's creator, decided future economic conditions would favor a better financial scenario for the multi-billion dollar project. Wall street applauded the news, which made good financial sense.

Fontainebleau, Las Vegas Strip: $3.4 Billion, (Opens 2008/2009). 4000 hotel rooms.

Encore, Las Vegas Strip: $2 Billion, Opens 2008/2009. A Wynn Las Vegas development, 2,054 luxury suites and casino will compliment the Wynn Las Vegas hotel and casino which resides next door.

Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas Strip: $2 Billion, Opens 2009/2010. The Cosmopolitan Resort and Casino will be a condo hotel which is destined to redefine the Las Vegas skyline with its stunning design, consisting of two glass towers, a casino, a theater, convention and meeting space.

Caesars Palace Expansion, Las Vegas Strip: $1 Billion, Opens late 2009.

Las Vegas Convention Center Expansion: $900 Million. To be completed in three phases.

Harrah's and AEG New Sports Arena: $500 Million, Opens 2011.

Las Vegas Sands, New Upgraded Sands Convention Center: $680 Million, Opens 2010. Location at the intersection of Koval Lane and Sands. The new 1.2 million square foot exhibition center, with 36 foot high ceilings and 1,800 parking spaces with moving sidewalks connected to the Palazzo and Venetian casino hotels would also give the Sands the ability to develop 7,000 new, additional hotel rooms.

M Resort Las Vegas, situated on 90 acres at the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip, at Las Vegas Blvd., and St. Rose Parkway (St. Rose Parkway Exit). The M Resort Las Vegas, will have a striking hotel tower with 390 luxurious rooms and suites, a 100,000 square foot pool and entertainment Piazza, including waterfalls and canyon bar wine cellar. In addition, the M Resort will feature a 92,000 square foot Casino Gaming area, 9 Dining Outlets, including Tower Restaurant with Las Vegas Strip elevated view, 4 Bars and Lounges, including the Signature Hot Spot M Bar, plus 60,000 square feet of meeting and conference spaces. The M Resort Las Vegas Opens Mid 2009, Please Check Back For Online Reservation Information. 

Tropicana Las Vegas, To be completed by 2012. New multi-billion dollar redevelopment to include up to 600,000 square feet of meeting space, 10,224 beautifully appointed guest rooms, 100,000 square foot casino, 250,000 square foot retail mall. First of its kind water attraction ride combined with 3D imagery and 4D technology. The World Famous Folies Bergere, plus a second theater with stage productions. Three luxurious resort spas and fitness centers, plus more.

The Palazzo! Las Vegas Newest Casino Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, NOW OPEN!

Palazzo Las Vegas, the Palazzo hotel and casino is a 50 floor luxury tower with approximately 3,025 luxury suites. The hotel lobby features a 60 foot glass dome, multiple two story fountains, imported marble, bronze case columns and special custom wall finishes. Guests arriving from the street, enter the domed entry lobby while those approaching from the Venetian Casino Resort make the transition through a towering octagonal structure, itself topped by a glass and decorative iron dome. The landscape is made up of palm trees, tailored paintings and exotically shaped topiaries.

The Palazzo Casino Resort includes over 375 concierge level suites and also includes six villas (up to 11,000 square feet each) which have 3 and 4 bedrooms, 3.5 to 4.5 baths, extensive living areas, media rooms, private pools, private Jacuzzis, private salons, massage areas, heated spas, personal gyms and, also available with private putting greens. The presidential suites and the villas offer private butler services. The Palazzo hotel has 296 multi room suites, including six presidential suites. The Palazzo hotel has an elaborate pool deck with seven pools, gardens, sculptures, cabanas and fountains and an adjacent spa facility.

A typical Palazzo hotel suite is approximately 655 to 735 square feet, consisting of a raised sleeping area and bathroom and a sunken living and working area. The suite's bi-level configuration creates a multi-function living space in which guests can sleep, work and entertain and includes two queen-size beds or one king-size bed, a writing desk, dual-line speaker phones, a fax machine, a pullout sofa, sitting chairs and a dining table. The Palazzo Casino Resort features premium, signature restaurants owned and operated by well known restaurateurs.

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What's New? Las Vegas Food and Dining!

Forbes Magazine has completed a worldwide sampling of food, dining and champagne brunches provided by the largest cities in the world. Las Vegas quality of food and dining opportunities has been rated number two, just behind New York and ahead of Paris France.

Steve Wynn to build two new glamorous hotels on the Golf Course property behind the Encore and Wynn Casino Hotels located on the Las Vegas Strip. The two new hotels will have a total of 5,200 rooms, plus a 1.8 million square foot convention center which will connect via underground tram to the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Station Casinos is planning to build 3 hotels with a total of 5,200 rooms, plus casino and arena. The mixed use development, which could top 10 billion dollars on its 110 acre property located on Tropicana, just off the I-15 freeway is in the planning stages. The new Station Casino project will rival the new MGM Mirage CityCenter project opening next year on the Las Vegas Strip.

Moulin Rouge Still Waiting For a Come Back Performance!

The Moulin Rouge Hotel and Casino located in west Las Vegas opened its doors on May 24, 1955 and closed in November of the same year. The Moulin Rouge was the first desegregated casino hotel in the United States of America and it was very popular with black entertainers of the time, such as Sammy Davis Jr., Nat King Cole, Pearl Bailey, and Louis Armstrong. White performers such as George Burns, Jack Benny and Frank Sinatra would often stop by to gamble and perform. In 1992 the Moulin Rouge was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In January of 2004 the Moulin Rouge sold for $12.1 million to the Moulin Rouge Development Corporation. A $200 million renovation of the site was announced but was never completed, and earlier this year a Virginia based investment firm showed interest to have this landmark hotel rise again. Perhaps the Moulin Rouge will finally come back to life!