Downtown past a blast for Circa
Design, artwork salute to LV eras
Downtown’s newest attraction is rich with history.
Nods to Las Vegas’ heydays, from the ’20s onward, are scattered across the area’s newest hotel-casino, Circa, just as the property’s name was meant to inspire.
“There’s small design elements from all the eras, and it was really important that we created a space that had elements that people could relate to but also done in a new, kind of exciting way,” said Alice O’keefe, Circa’s director of design and architecture.
There’s art deco lighting in the high-limit gaming area. Images of gamblers through
in Uncasville in an online meeting with regulators in Nevada.
Commissioners were impressed with the applicants questioned in the hearing.
“This is a very exciting opportunity to bring in new investors and operators to Las Vegas,” said Commissioner Deborah Fuetsch of Northern Nevada. “I anticipate this will be a win-win for Las Vegas and Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment.”
Fuetsch said the applicants were atypical of a usual group of about 15 up for licensing of an operator.
“I will say that this is a very impressive group of individual applicants, very clean backgrounds with not a single hiccup,” she said. “With that many, usually we have one or two that we might have a couple of questions about their background. But this group was very impressive and really there was nothing that jumped out on any of the applicants.”
Commissioner Ogonna Brown said the tribe’s cultural richness could add new experiences to Las Vegas.
“I am very excited about the additional concepts, ideas, philosophies and traditions coming to Las Vegas,” Brown said. “I think they will co-exist nicely, and I am definitely in support and I really commend the presentation of the cadre of people that have come before us today.”
Brown noted that she is “very, very hopeful for the future and the symbiotic relationship we will have with the cross-marketing and very, very interested in the future and the company to see how much more you will grow.”
“I think this is an exciting time for your nation, and I look forward to having you,” added Commissioner Rosa Solis-rainey, who said she has family members who belong to a smaller tribe. “I think it’s going to be a win-win definitely for both your
tribe and for the city of Las Vegas and the state of Nevada.”
Tribal leaders said in their testimony that 1,309 adult members of the tribe receive checks of less than $30,000 a year as a result of the tribe’s gaming relationships worldwide.