$1.9 Billion Palazzo Opens in Las Vegas

January 18, 2008 2:59 pm

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Billionaire Sheldon Adelson flipped the switch “on” for his newest creation, the $1.9 billion Palazzo hotel-casino, with a modest fireworks display and champagne toast in the brisk January air. The gigantic hotel-casino — Palazzo means “palace” in Italian — officially debuted Thursday as the biggest resort to open on the Las Vegas Strip in three years. Festivities in a celebrity-studded weekend include a Saturday performance by Diana Ross and the Tony Award-winning musical that will play at the hotel-casino, “The Jersey Boys.”

The weekend bash was postponed from the expected opening in late December when it wasn’t ready for inspections and permits.

Some guests said the soft opening of parts of the property on Dec. 30 took some of the fizzle out of the affair.

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