Wynn Las Vegas

Wynn Las Vegas, built at a cost of US$2.7 billion, is a 2,716 room casino resort located on the Las Vegas Strip, still under construction, in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is owned by Wynn Resorts Limited and it is the company's flagship property. Wynn Las Vegas is one of the tallest buildings in Las Vegas, towering 50 stories over the Las Vegas Strip. It is located at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard South and Sands Avenue, across the street from the Fashion Show Mall. The property will feature a 110,000 square foot casino, three-acre lake, 18 restaurants, 26 retail outlets, one of which is a Ferrari-Maserati dealership, an art gallery, and two wedding chapels.

Nightclubs will be an important part of the resort, as will theaters housing several production shows. One production show is Avenue Q, which enjoyed considerable success on Broadway. The other production show will feature a new, water-oriented production, entitled "Le R?e" (the original name of the resort project), designed by Franco Dragone, no seat will be more than 40 feet from the stage for this production. Dragone was a director of Cirque du Soleil and creator of C?ine Dion's "A New Day" at Caesars Palace. Although not a Cirque du Soleil production, "Le R?e" will likely share many of the characteristics usually associated with a Cirque show.

The historic Desert Inn Golf Course was rebuilt while the hotel was being constructed. The new course, the only one on the Las Vegas Strip, was designed by Steve Wynn and Tom Fazio, who previously worked together on the Shadow Creek Golf Club, also in Las Vegas. Called the "Wynn Golf and Country Club", use of the course is restricted to hotel guests.

The resort will also presumably hold much of Steve Wynn's considerable art collection, which was largely removed from the Bellagio following the merger of MGM Grand, Inc. and Mirage Resorts, Inc. in 2000. The collection, which focuses primarily on 19th and 20th-century works by European and American artists, includes masterpieces by ?ouard Manet, Andy Warhol, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, and Paul Gaugin, among others. The collection is currently on display in the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, and will likely be installed in the Wynn Las Vegas shortly before the resort is opened.