The Palazzo Las Vegas, a Las Vegas Sands property, informed that the US Green Building Council (USGBC) made its „green“ status official with the presentation of a Silver LEED Certificate (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) at an award ceremony recently held. Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons and David E. Rodgers, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency at the U.S. Department of Energy were also on-hand to honor this impressive accomplishment.

The cast is pure Vegas. There’s Terry “Baby Face” Lanni, Steve “Win” Wynn, Big Sheldon Adelson and Gary “The Teacher” Loveman. The plot is a Sin City classic. Four casino bosses make the ultimate bet – GBP 20 billion – to become king of The Strip. But this is not a film. Showdown in Showtown is playing now, live and uncut. It was 2pm and Sheldon Adelson, the third-richest man in America and boss of the Las Vegas Sands Group, was celebrating the opening…

The gambling action is moving north along the Las Vegas Strip with last week’s opening of the Palazzo, filling out a once-quiet intersection and promising more play for neighboring resorts run by Wynn Resorts and MGM Mirage. The USD 1.9 billion Palazzo, an extension of Las Vegas Sands Corp’s Venetian hotel-casino, is the Strip’s first new resort in nearly three years and has increased casino visitors along the northern portion of the gambling corridor, even though room rates have softened.

Las Vegas (AP) — Billionaire Sheldon Adelson flipped the switch „on“ for his newest creation, the USD 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.

Las Vegas – The Las Vegas Strip adds its first major resort in nearly three years on Thursday when the USD 1.9 billion Palazzo, the second Italian-themed property from Las Vegas Sands Corp., has its grand opening. Despite economic fears buffeting the United States, casinos are betting that high rollers and vacationers will keep flooding into the gambling center, especially as a weak dollar draws foreign travelers and keeps Americans from leaving the country.

When a float depicting a portion of the USD 1.8 billion Palazzo rolls down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, Calif., this morning to kick off the 2008 Tournament of Roses Parade, it will promote an open casino. After a few days delay getting through the Clark County permitting process, Las Vegas Sands Corp. opened the casino portion of the Palazzo on Sunday evening, just in time for the busy New Year’s Eve holiday.

Sands executives had planned to open the 50-story resort next to The Venetian by the end of 2007, and the company said during an August earnings report that the date would be December 20. In recent weeks, company officials focused on plans for a „soft“ opening this month to let guests begin arriving while staff ironed out last-minute kinks. „The Palazzo … is nearly complete,“ Reese said in a statement that noted the company would not grant interviews until the grand opening.

Presenting the newest hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in nearly three years, Las Vegas Sands announced that The Palazzo Las Vegas will soft-open on December 20 followed by a series of espectacular grand opening celebratory events from January 17-19, 2008. According to President of The Palazzo Las Vegas Rob Goldstein, the property will become a new resort-hotel-casino of unparalleled luxury, sophistication, and contemporary chic on the Las Vegas Strip.