Las vegas casino owners
Who owns which Las Vegas casinos
(builder & owner)
(details) The newest (at the time) ground-up casino on the Vegas Strip.
(builder & owner)
(details) Station builds a new ground-up casino in west Las Vegas.
(details) Blackstone sells part of its interest in Bellagio. The result will be 73.1% BREIT, 21.9 Realty Income, 5% MGM Resorts.
(details) Caesars had already sold the real estate to Dreamscape back in 2019. Dreamscape now takes over the casino operations, too.
(details) MGM sold the land that was the site of the 10/1/17 shooting, the deadliest in U.S. history, with 60 killed and over 850 injured.
(details) LVCVA agreed to sell ten acres at the SE corner of S. LVB and Elvis Presley Blvd. to developers. The deal must close by 9/11.
(details) The real estate was jointly owned by VICI (50.1%) and Blackstone (49.9%). With this deal, VICI is buying out Blackstone's portion.
(details) Station sold 56.6 acres of land across the street from the 126 acres it bought in July 2022.
(details) Hard Rock Intl. is owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, which has no relation to the earlier Hard Rock Casino on Harmon Ave. which closed in 2020. HRI plans to build a guitar-shaped hotel, and will probably get rid of the beloved volcano. The real estate will continue to be owned by VICI.
(details) Bally's bought the "Non-land assets", which means the buildings + casino business. This is odd because usually one company owns all the real estate (buildings+land), but now one company owns the land (Gaming & Leisure) and another the buildings (Bally's). • The Bally's Corp. which bought Tropicana is no relation to the Bally's Casino a few doors down, which is owned by Caesars.
(details) Station bought 126 acres at LVB and Cactus Ave (and sold the land across the street in Dec. 2022)
(details) The new owner plans to build a casino resort. The area had hosted a Travelodge, the Hawaiian Marketplace, and a parking lot.
(details) See below for real estate sale. This is the first new strip casino for MGM since opening Aria in 2009.
(details) See above for casino sale
(details) Caesars Ent. created VICI to buy the real estate of its casinos, and MGM Resorts created MGM Growth Properties to do the same. With this deal, VICI bought MGM Growth, so MGM's landlord is now an offshoot of its main competitor, Caesars. This also means that VICI owns most of the real estate on the strip: The Caesars Ent. casinos and MGM Resorts' casinos. With this sale, VICI acquired the real estate of Excalibur, Luxor, Mandalay Bay, MGM Grand, Mirage, NY NY, and Park MGM. Note: This sale marks the end of MGM Growth.
(details) See below for the real estate sale.
(details) See above for the casino sale. Note: This sale is unique in that the sole owner of the casino business + real estate sold each to a different company, and didn't retain ownership of either one itself. Also, with this sale the seller no longer has any business in Vegas, although the name of the company is literally "Las Vegas Sands".
(details) San Manuel Band of Mission Indians becomes the first owner/operator of a Vegas resort
(details) MGM first bought out Infinity World's 50% stake (see below), becoming the sole owner, then sold the real estate to Blackstone.
(details) MGM was already a 50% owner. (see above for related sale).
(details) SW corner of LVB & Harmon Ave, next to Crystals. Slated to be four levels of retail, to be called Project 63, and to open in Oct. 2022.
(details) Twin River owns casinos across the U.S. but none in Vegas (until 5/22/22). Following the purchase, it changed its name and the names of its casinos to Bally's The company never owned nor operated the Bally's Casino next to Paris, which Caesars plans to rename to "Horseshoe".
(details) The merger creates the world's largest gambling group, with 60 casinos in 16 states. Technically Eldorado bought Caesars, but the merged company will be known as Caesars.
(details) The land is near the mid-Strip, on the far side of the monorail.
(details) Gaming & Leisure is a spinoff of Penn.
(details) Ruffin also owns Treasure Island. He's a close friend of Donald Trump.
(details) Caesars will continue to own & operate the casino business
(details) OYO is based in India. The closing date was not reported. Highgate will manage the hotel, Paragon will continue to manage the casino.
(details) Closing date of sale not reported. Hotel to reopen with a new name, but not casino.
(details) To be renamed Virgin. No relation to the Hard Rock casino/hotel that's slated to replace the Mirage
(details) Caesars to pay $87M/yr. in rent
(details) Golden acquires American Casino company, getting all its casinos
(details) Following MGM Resorts' lead, Caesars Ent. followed suit and started splitting the ownership of real estate from the casino business. VICI is a spinoff of Caesars Ent., part of CE's emergence from bankruptcy. VICI starts with a boatload of Caesars propeties, but Caesars Palace is the only one in Vegas for now.
(details) Boyd acquires Cannery Resorts, getting all its casinos
(details) Palms would be resold in 2021, to the San Manuel Tribe of Indians.
(details) This marks the first instance of a Vegas casino splitting off the real estate ownership from the casino business.
(details) Stevens already owned 65%, and now gets the last 35%
(details) Penn National Gaming would later become PENN Entertainment
(details) The casino closed almost immediately after the sale. The property is to be redeveloped along with neighboring properties into Circa.
(details) The German bank had bought the property in 2008.
(details) Original MGM Grand, became MGM Mirage in May 2000 after acquiring Mirage Resorts.
(details) Ruffin also bought Circus Circus in 2019. He's a close friend of Donald Trump.
(details) Harrah's had bought the property from the Binion family in 2004, which sold it days later to MTR.
(details) The Stevens bros. acquired a 50% stake, Brandenburg retains a 50% stake.
(details) Gold Spike had a casino until 2013.
(details) I couldn't verify the sale date, but on 2/4/08 LVRJ said the new sale was the second in six mos., which would put the 2007 sale at August.
(details) The new owners planned an extensive remodel but canceled it when the recession hit.
(now South Point)
(details) I couldn't find the sale date. The linked article announcing the sale agreement was July 25, and paywalled articles say that Gaughan "assumed operations" in October.
(details) Landry's owns Golden Nugget casinos in various cities.
(details) Tamares acquires Barrick, which includes all its properties.
(details) The deal created the largest gaming company in the world at the time, . with 40 properties. Then in 2010, Harrah's changed its name to Caesars Entertainment.
(details) One company now owns a majority of the hotel rooms on the strip, across nine casinos.
Boyd Gaming + Coast Casinos merge.
(details) Legendary casino owner Gaughan divests of all his properties except his beloved El Cortez. The sale also includes 35 acres of land and two downtown motels.
(details) Gold Spike had a casino until 2013.
(details) MGM Mirage would go on to merge with Mandalay Group in 2005.
(details) Coincides with its opening of Mandalay Bay.
(details) Hard to believe today, but this deal make Circus Circus the largest casino operator in the U.S., though the acquisition didn't add any casinos in Vegas itself..
(details) Real estate purchased from the original owner, Sarno. CCE had formed in 1974 so Sarno could lease the struggling casino to CCE.
(details) Sarno had started the casino in 1968.