The uncompleted Las Vegas resort became a symbol of U.S. Lim also opened a 750-acre beach front resort on the Bimini islands in the Bahamas in July as part of the group’s expansion in the Americas. slot machine parlor, and is pursuing one in Miami. It runs the Resorts World Casino at New York City’s Aqueduct race track, the top-grossing U.S. gambling amid restrictions on opening more casinos on home soil, where Muslims are forbidden from gambling under Malaysia’s Shariah laws. I’m quite confident we’ll obtain this license and only with that we’ll commence the construction.” “The group is undergoing regulatory investigations by the Nevada Gaming Board, which is one of the strictest you can get.
“We’re at the moment at the planning stage,” Lim told reporters at Malaysia’s Genting Highlands resort, where he operates the country’s only casino. The Echelon project will be re-branded Resorts World Las Vegas, with the opening of phase one planned for 2015, the company said at the time. Genting, controlled by Malaysian billionaire Lim Kok Thay, paid $350 million for the 87-acre (35-hectare) site, once home to the Stardust.
(BYD) earlier this year, its chairman said yesterday. (GENT), Southeast Asia’s largest casino operator, will spend as much as $4 billion on completing an unfinished Las Vegas resort it bought from Boyd Gaming Corp.
