Tunnel set to extend to north Strip

Resorts World and Encore part of loop

Tourism leaders are forging ahead with Elon Musk’s untested underground people mover and planning to extend into the resort corridor.

Plans call for new connections to Encore and Resorts World Las Vegas on the north end of the Strip, Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority President and CEO Steve Hill revealed at Tuesday’s board meeting.

This would be the first step in long-term plans to link the Strip, Mccarran International Airport and Allegiant Stadium.

Hill said the extensions to Encore and Resorts World, which he called the Vegas Loop, would not link to the convention center loop. The convention center loop, being built by Musk’s Boring Co., will shuttle conventiongoers around the facility’s halls.

The Encore tunnel and station could be complete as the convention center expansion and loop come on line in early January, Hill said. The Resorts World tunnel’s completion would be timed to coincide with the $4.3 billion resort’s planned summer 2021 opening date.

The LVCVA paid $55 million for the construction of the convention center loop. Unlike that project, the Boring Co. would be responsible for the costs associated with building the tunnels and stations to the two resorts. Officials did not give a cost estimate for the two extensions.

The station at Resorts World would be tied into a subterranean porte

as we welcomed back our employees and reopened our doors to guests for the first time in months,” said Bill Hornbuckle, MGM’S acting CEO and president.

Hornbuckle was on hand at Bellagio when that property opened its doors Thursday.

Luxor and the Shoppes at Mandalay

Bay Place will open their doors at 10 a.m. on June 25, a Thursday.

The July 1 reopening of Mandalay Bay, Four Seasons and Aria will occur at 11 a.m., just ahead of a three-day Fourth of July weekend. The public holiday will be observed Friday, July 3.

The gaming floor at The Linq will open at 11 a.m. Friday.

When the reopenings announced Tuesday are completed, MGM will have The Mirage, Park MGM and

Nomad Las Vegas and the nongaming Delano and Vdara properties left to open. Excalibur is scheduled to reopen Thursday.

Caesars Entertainment will have Planet Hollywood, Bally’s, Paris Las Vegas, The Cromwell and the offstrip Rio still unopened.

Contact Richard N. Velotta at rvelotta@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3893. Follow @Rickvelotta on Twitter.