Inside Asian Gaming

IAG MAY 2020年5月 亞博匯 28 COVER STORY Resorts World Las Vegas is nearing completion and scheduled to open in 2021. 幾近完工的雲頂中華世界計劃於2021年開業 本計劃推動拉斯維加斯大道北端 的繁榮，與James Packer的Crown Las Vegas隔街相望。但在2008年8 月，即Packer擱置了Crown Vegas 的五個月之後，全球信貸緊縮導致 Echelon項目工程停頓，Boyd最初 預計延遲不會超過一年。 但Echelon的建設並未再復 工，延期從幾個月變成了幾年，該 場地上八層樓高的混凝土及鋼鐵 外殼成了大道上扎眼的爛尾樓。雲 頂集團在2013年以3.5億美元的價 格買下了這塊土地，低於Boyd所 稱打造這些結構所花費的5億美 元，但現在這些結構均已成為雲頂 中華世界的一部分 。 1 November 2006 and, four months later, went out with a bang, imploded in a gala complete with fireworks. In June 2007, Boyd broke ground on Echelon, a US$4.8 billion, 5,000 room integrated resort and began taking convention bookings for its scheduled late 2010 opening. The project was expected to fuel a boomat the north end of the Strip, joining James Packer’s Crown Las Vegas across the street. But in August 2008-five months after Packer shelved Crown Vegas - the global credit squeeze halted work at Echelon, a delay Boyd initially estimated at no more than a year. But Echelon construction never resumed, and, as months turned into years of delay, the site’s eight-storey concrete and steel shells became infamous Strip eyesores. Genting bought the site in 2013 for US$350million, less than the US$500million Boyd says it spent to build the structures now incorporated into RWLV.