Construction at Genting Group’s US$4 billion Resorts World Las Vegas is well underway, with the Las Vegas Review-Journal reporting a dramatic increase in activity on the site last week.
It follows comments from new property President Edward Farrell recently in which he said the company would have at least 1,000 workers on site by 2018.
The ambitious, Chinese-themed resort will boast 3,200 hotel rooms across two towers when it opens in 2020 with Farrell proclaiming it will focus on modern China rather than the traditional design elements more commonly seen at China-facing properties.
“We’ve gone back and forth on a lot of design elements,” he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “At one point it was really traditional, kind of an ancient Chinese Forbidden City look.
“We ended up moving away from that for a couple of reasons. We think the modern Chinese elements are more appealing to people nowadays, just more exciting. It definitely has an Asian feel and theme, but it’s more of an Asia today theme.
“We have the opportunity to really not necessarily just copy what’s been done, but use technology that is coming about and be the modern casino. The more modern Chinese theme fits in more to where we’re really going with this resort.
“When we open up, we’ll use the newest and most recent technology and have appeal to people over the next 30, 40, 50 years.”
