Encore Las Vegas
at a glance
Location: Las Vegas Strip, Paradise, Nevadaat a glance
Address: 3121 Las Vegas Blvd South
Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
Opening date: December 22, 2008
No. of rooms: 2,034
Total gaming space: 74,000 sq ft (6,900 m2)
Permanent shows : None
(Previously Danny Gans)
Casino type : Land-Based
Owner: Wynn Resorts Limited
Architect : Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo
Years renovated: none
Website: Encore
History
On April 28, 2006, Wynn Las Vegas celebrated its one year anniversary by breaking ground on a second hotel tower. Initially named the Encore Suites at Wynn Las Vegas, the 2,034 room hotel project cost $2.3 billion and was sited for a spot adjacent to the existing resort and on the remaining frontage of Las Vegas Boulevard. Originally envisioned as an expansion of Wynn Las Vegas, Encore Las Vegas quickly became a full-scale resort; it shares resources and is connected to the Wynn resort via a shopping arcade. The resort was estimated to add 5,300 jobs to the Las Vegas area.
After 2½ years of construction, the resort formally opened to the public at 8:00pm on December 22, 2008 to large crowds. Due to the period's economic downturn, the opening was designed to be more subdued than previous casino resort openings. The resort's jewelery shop featured the 231 carats (46 g; 710 gr), prune-sized Wynn Diamond, which was billed as "the largest cut pear-shaped diamond in the world." To open the betting, Steve Wynn gave invited high-rollers a few million dollars to make the initial bets and marked the initial start by declaring over a microphone, "Let the games begin!"; the start of gambling was accompanied by a recording of Frank Sinatra's "Luck Be a Lady Tonight."
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