Ground was broken two years ago, but not a lot has happened at the north Strip site of Genting’s multibillion-dollar Resorts World Las Vegas. It appears that’s about to change.
Principal construction of the much-anticipated 3,000-room Asian-themed casino hotel, the first ground-up resort to be built on the Strip since the Great Recession, could commence before the year is out, following the announcement that W.A. Richardson Builders, a company with a long Vegas pedigree, has been selected to manage it.
Richardson was the general contractor for Mandalay Bay, Monte Carlo, The Linq and The Cromwell and has overseen major renovations for other Strip properties, according to a Resorts World release.
Resorts World also said it awarded a number of contracts to construction material suppliers and subcontractors.
The announcement came about a week after the Clark County Building Department approved multiple permits and applications for the project.
“The tower cranes will go up over the next eight weeks,” said RWLV President Edward Farrell.
Farrell took charge of the project in May, four years after Genting bought the 87-acre site, once home to the famed Stardust Hotel, from Boyd Gaming for around $350 million. Boyd had torn down the Stardust to make way for a megaresort called Echelon but abandoned it in the wake of the 2008-09 financial crisis.
