The new property will feature a 117,740-square-foot casino, the above-mentioned hotel tower with 777 rooms for guests, a parking garage with 1,526 spaces, a sports book, food and beverage facilities, a rooftop lounge, a pool, a spa, and a number of other facilities. The garage and the main casino will be connected via a sky bridge.
The property will be located at the site of the former Las Vegas Club, Mermaids Casino, and the Girls of Glitter Gulch Topless Club. The three venues were located on Fremont Street right at the corner of Main Street, but were demolished to create room for the new development.
Developer Derek Stevens, who is also the owner of downtown The D Las Vegas hotel and casino, is behind the Fremont resort project.
The development plan has been submitted with the Las Vegas Planning Commission. Commissioners are set to review it on Tuesday and decide whether they would grant five special-use permits to the developer. The scheme will next be referred to the Las Vegas City Council where it will be reviewed on June 20. Due to the planned height of the hotel tower, the project also needs to be given the green light from the Federal Aviation Administration.
”Responsibility for Downtown”
He called the block where his new property will be located the most important one in the history of Las Vegas, as the corner of Fremont and Main Streets is not far from where the popular casino hub was born.
An official name for the new resort is yet to be announced, but Mr. Stevens has told local media that they want something unique to Las Vegas, a throwback reference. The property will certainly not be named Las Vegas Club, as the developer had not bought the name along with the site it had occupied.
It is interesting to note that Mr. Stevens actually owns Grandissimo, the name of the unrealized Strip megaresort pitched by Jay Sarno. The late businessman was the person behind flagship properties like Caesars Palace and Circus Circus. In his interview from earlier this year, Mr. Stevens said that they were not ruling out the option to name his new property Grandissimo, but a final choice on that was yet to be made.
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Sweden’s gambling market was worth SEK5.63 billion (approximately $631.9 million, €528.4 million) during the first quarter of 2018, up 2.8% from the same three-month period a year ago, the latest figures released by the country’s gambling regulator Lotteriinspektionen show. 
The latest revenue figures come as Sweden’s government is set to consider the latest version of a proposed legislation that seeks to scrap the existing monopoly over the provision of gambling services in the country and replace it with a licensing system. 
Macau gaming and hospitality operator Galaxy Entertainment Group is still committed to building an eco-friendly $300-million to $500-million casino resort on the Philippine island of Boracay, the company itself said in its financial report for the first quarter of 2018.
Uncertainty has been surrounding the Boracay casino project for the past several months as following the announcement about the island’s imminent closure, reports emerged that developers were looking for an alternative site for a casino resort. 
