This is an artist’s rendering of Pulse, a massive mixed-use development that’s just been approved by Las Vegas City Council. Like all good Las Vegas projects, Pulse has several interesting features. The first is its location. Situated just north of the Stratosphere, Pulse aims to extend the strip further north, effectively blurring the boundaries between [...]

Caesar’s Palace must have been feeling a bit left out, what with all the talk of new multi-billion hotels going up all around it. So they decided to join in the fun, and have announced a new $1 billion extension to the property, which has just been approved. Read on to see what Caesar’s Palace’s [...]

The Mandalay Bay hotel sits proudly at the south end of the Las Vegas strip, acting as a shining gold bookend that represents the end of the strip. A giant gold tower may sound gaudy, but in the relentless Las Vegas sun, the Mandalay Bay looks stunning. At least, from the outside! Inside, it’s been [...]

Las Vegas has been referred to as one of the modern wonders of the world, and for good reason. Long gone are the days when Vegas was a cheesy sleazy place full of casinos and endless Elvis memorabilia. Today, Vegas is an ultra-modern party town that’s rapidly going upmarket, with more attractions per square mile [...]

Las Vegas is currently in the middle of an unprecedented $30 billion building boom, with another $50 billion set to follow that, with few analysts worrying over whether Las Vegas can support the tens of thousands of new hotel rooms that are being created. But it wasn’t always like that. Ten years ago, the Venetian [...]

Everyone who goes to Las Vegas wants to make a million, right? You play the slots, spin the wheel, or raise them high in high stakes poker – whatever your game, you want to win and win big. But other than sheer luck, just how can you do it? How can you go to Las [...]

As more renderings and photos of Echelon Place are emerging, I felt it only best to create a new Echelon Place photo gallery. Seeing the pics in the main blog is OK, but you can’t get a sense of the detail, so as there’s more room in the gallery section, it seems best all round [...]

The somewhat bland renderings of the new Echelon Place that were released a few days ago caused something of an upset on the main Vegas forums. The renderings seemed to show a pretty soulless set of buildings that would look anonymous in any city, let alone a city like Las Vegas. However, an anonymous building [...]

MGM Mirage purchased over 30 acres of land next to its Circus Circus hotel on the north end of the Vegas strip back in April. This gave the company over 100 acres of contiguous land in a rapidly developing area of the strip. Rumours were rife that MGM Mirage could be planning to build another [...]

Boyd Gaming gave us all an update on its progress with Echelon Place yesterday, announcing that thye’d broken ground and construction was about to begin in earnest. Tantalisingly, they also announced that new renderings of the $4 billion mega-resort would be made available, but hadn’t actually released them to the public – until today. Here, [...]