Las Vegas Strip to get New York-style public park – Las Vegas Sun News

Las Vegas is trying to beat its reputation as a shut-in.

MGM Resorts International announced Thursday that it will sink $100 million into building a park and public promenade outside of its New York-New York and Monte Carlo casinos.

The project runs counter to casinos’ long-held strategy of trying to keep people inside, losing track of time as they buy more chips and flit from one pricey attraction to the next.

“It’s what customers were really excited about in the ’80s and ’90s- the convenience of being in a single environment when you could sample so many different kinds of entertainment,” MGM CEO Jim Murren said in a telephone interview. “Tomorrow’s consumer doesn’t want that limitation. They are far more spontaneous.”

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