Hakkasan chief Neil Moffitt strongly hinted that renovations were upcoming for one of his company’s newest clubs, Pure at Caesars Palace. His company acquired Angel Management Group, and that move was announced Feb. 19.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. is playing host to a job fair next week to fill more than 550 hospitality jobs at the Linq. The Linq is a $550 million retail, entertainment and dining district under construction on the Las Vegas Strip. It includes the Las Vegas High Roller observation wheel and will create 1,500 jobs in Las Vegas, Caesar’s officials said. The job fair, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 18 in the Sunset Ballroom at Flamingo Las Vegas, includes employers from businesses at the Linq and other Caesars developments.
The thief who broke into Master Sgt. Bob Crowley’s car didn’t take anything of great value. But the burglar made off with a case containing two uniforms, a set of medals and a pair of dog tags — Crowley’s “career in a box.”
Clark County grand jury today indicted the man accused of carjacking a California Highway Patrol officer’s pickup at a Las Vegas Strip hotel and getting into an accident that subsequently killed the officer and his brother-in-law.
Maybe you fancied that old furniture at the Flamingo. Or fell in love with the lampshades at Planet Hollywood. Oh, and how about those chairs at Caesars Palace? Well, it might be up for grabs.
Surveillance video and eyewitnesses have helped police piece together the series of events Sunday that started with a carjacking at the Flamingo casino valet and ended with a multivehicle accident that left a California Highway Patrol officer dead and another man seriously injured.
Power to part of the Flamingo on the Las Vegas Strip was knocked out for hours today as a result of ongoing construction at the adjacent Gansevoort, a company official said.
For months, there has been the steady buzz of saws, the hammering of nails and the grumbling of bulldozers. Now, at the end of a 1,200-foot pedestrian walkway, a 550-foot-tall observation wheel is taking shape. Developers of Caesars Entertainment's Linq offered a sneak peek today of the development, a $550-million dining, retail and entertainment promenade expected to open in December.
Plumbing problems at the Flamingo have put several parts of the resort on hold. Officials have closed the food court, several hotel rooms and shows until repairs are made.
The last of the University of California, Berkeley students implicated in the October death of an exotic bird on the Las Vegas Strip has pleaded guilty to a felony charge.
A third person has been charged in the death of an exotic bird at Flamingo’s wildlife habitat. Hazhir Kargaran faces three misdemeanors in conjunction with the death of Turk, a 14-year-old helmeted guinea fowl, on Oct. 12.
The Genting Group got a steal on the Strip land it bought this week to build Resorts World Las Vegas, a 3,500-room Chinese-themed resort. The Malaysian company paid Boyd Gaming only $350 million for the 87-acre site of the imploded Stardust and failed Echelon. By comparison, Phil Ruffin sold the 36-acre New Frontier property in 2007 for $1.24 billion, a Las Vegas record.