Who Owns Vegas New Projects Exciting hotels to come: constructions, proposals and rumors Last updated: January 2009. First published: October 2005. By Andrew Hudson Home | Introduction | Top Players | New Projects | News Hotels | Index | Timeshares | Links | Email Sorry, I need to tidy this up! Edge Las Vegas, the world's largest hotel with 6,745 rooms. The hotel, casino and retail complex would be located a few blocks east of the Strip, on 60 acres along Harmon Avenue, west of the Hard Rock Hotel, where Las Ramblas was planned. The group is led by AFI Group. Grand Central Hotel, with 2,500-rooms in a 61-story tower in downtown Las Vegas. proposed on 4/24/08 by a quite group called Grand Central South Partners. Park Highlands. A 66-acre mixed-used complex with 1,500 rooms proposed by Boyd Gaming and Olympia Gaming. Announced 4/11/08. Viva by Station Casinos. The largest private development at $10+ billion. 5,200 rooms in three hotels on 110 acres west of CityCenter. Announced 4/19/08. Various Station Casinos projects. Announced alongside Viva were up to eight projects in Las Vegas, including one by Palace Station, one south of South Point, and one on the (finally) old Castaways site. Steve Wynn indicates that the Wynn golf course will be replaced with a large conference center and two hotels with 5,200 rooms. Company and rank by LV hotel room count Rooms Owned and open Hotels with room count Ownership Turnberry through Fontainebleau Resorts LLC 864 Building: Fontainebleau Las Vegas (3,889 rooms (2,719 hotel rooms, 152 suites, 1,018 condo-hotel units), opening 2009) Signature at MGM Grand 1,728 condo-hotel units (1,152 more proposed) (50% with MGM Mirage) Private Jeffrey Soffer Maloof 802 The Palms (802) Building: A third tower with 599 more condo-hotel rooms Private George Maloof Morgans 647 Hard Rock Hotel (647) Building: 950 more rooms (opening 2009) at the Hard Rock Delano (550, 2010, 50% with Boyd) Mondrian (860, 2010, 50% with Boyd) NASDAQ: MHGC Ed Scheetz Financial Capital 500 Alexis Park (500) Proposed: Second tower with 1,000 rooms but project has not moved for several years Private Richard Alter Starwood 385 Planet Hollywood (2,567, 15%, see OpBiz) Licenses names to Element (125, 2008) and Westin Casuarina (816). Part-owner in Weststate Project. NYSE: HOT CEO: Steven Heyer Crown Ltd 201 Cannery (201, 100%) Building: Eastside Cannery (307, 100%, 2010) Fontainebleau Las Vegas (3,889, 19.6%, 2009) CDLDF James Packer (38% ownership) M Resorts (50% owned by MGM Mirage) Building: M Resort (2,000, 2009) Private Tony Marnell Olympia Building: Southern-Highlands (1,400, 2009) Private Garry Goett Trump Entertainment and Ruffin Co. Building: Trump Int'l (1,286, 2007, 1,200 more rooms in 2009, 50% with Ruffin) Private Donald Trump Phil Ruffin Falcon Group Building: Pinnacle (1,104 condo-hotel rooms, 2009) Private 3700 Marathon Global Hyatt Building: Grand Hyatt (1,000 hotel rooms plus 1,700 condo-hotel units, 2008) Private Dubai World Ownership: 50% of MGM Mirage's CityCenter: Unnamed (4,000, 2009) (50% with MGM Mirage) Harmon (400, 2009) (50% with MGM Mirage) Mandarin Oriental (400, 2009) (50% with MGM Mirage) Vdara (1,543 condo-hotel, 2009) (50% with MGM Mirage) Government of Dubai Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem REI Group Proposed: Project Pulse, an 85-acre sports project with 6,000 hotel rooms in south downtown Las Vegas. Private Jon Weaver Wet Holdings Proposed: Las Vegas WET / Snow Dome Las Vegas: A 200-acre resort with 10,000 rooms in six hotels. On the far south Strip. Private Steve Dooner Elad IDB Proposed: The Las Vegas Plaza: Modeled on New York's Plaza hotel, with 4,100 hotel rooms and 2,600 condos, opening in 2011, on the site of the New Frontier. Private Yitzhak Tshuva Cogent Building: 386-room Crowne Plaza in Chinatown. Brand licensed from IHG. Proposed: Dragon City Hotel and Resorts, a 2,200-room in Chinatown. Private Andrew Lai Ray Shapiro Minority owner of The M Resort. Proposed: R Resort: a 1,500-room hotel and 720-unit condo tower, on the far south Strip at St. Rose Pkwy. Private Ray Shapiro Sahara Investments Proposed: Allure Hotel (may get a different name): 1,300-room, 72-story hotel in the Allure Las Vegas condo complex, north of Sahara Ave. Private Steve Fifield Royal Palm Las Vegas LLC Proposed: Paramount Vegas: 750 hotel rooms and 800 condos, on the south Strip by the Welcome To Las Vegas sign, on the site of the old Klondike Inn. Private Dan Wade The Peebles Corp Proposed: Las Palmas Hotel and Residences (800 hotel rooms, 1,000 condos, opening 2009) Private Don Peebles MRDC-RUP Proposed: 700 rooms at the redeveloped Moulin Rouge in downtown. Private Dale Scott GIH-SPE II Proposed: Replacing the Greek Isles (209 rooms, 1970) with a 780-room resort. Private Greg Borgel? FXRE Discussed: The Elvis Las Vegas on 17 acres of the Strip, where the Harley Davidson Cafe is. Nasdaq: FXRE Bob Sillerman Africa Israel group Discussed: Crowne Plaza? Holiday Inn? May build several hotels on 60 acres by the Hard Rock. Private Lev Leviev Kerzner Discussed: Atlantis Las Vegas? A project on 40 acres of the Strip by Sahara Ave, 25% with MGM Mirage (50%) and Istithmar (25%). NYSE: KZL Sol Kerzner Triple Five Minority owner of the Riviera. Acquiring: 18 acres of the North Strip, immediately south of the Riviera, for a project with eight towers. Private Ghermezian family While working on my book A Photo Tour of Las Vegas, I wanted a list of the corporations that own the major hotels of Sin City. I couldn't find a good one so, after far too much time trolling the Internet, I made this. I hope it's helpful! Click here to go to the list

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