“By the end of the year” is MGM Resorts International‘s new timeline for reopening Park MGM. Archrival Caesars Entertainment is proceeding somewhat more circumspectly with its casino reopenings. “Caesars will open its remaining Las Vegas properties in line with customer demand, regulatory requirements and any additional health and safety considerations,” the company told the Los Angeles Times. Given that convention business is nada, zip, zilch, we’re puzzled as to why MGM has been so aggressive about rebooting the Las Vegas Strip unless it is for the sake of appearances … and to entice midweek business. As for Wynn Resorts‘ giant payroll dump of Le Reve, “I think that’s gotten a lot of people nervous in Las Vegas,” comments Las Vegas Review-Journal entertainment columnist John Katsilmotes. However, he thinks Cirque du Soleil will come back, bit by bit. “We’re still dealing with a kind of value customer in Las Vegas right now, the drive-in crowd who are looking for a bargain.” Cirque a bargain? If you say so.
