Consider after experiencing a confining two-year virus drought, and you suddenly look high up into the Las Vegas sky and see very colorful, explosive fireworks – and it is not even New Year’s Eve or July 4th – well, you just know there is something grand brewing in Las Vegas!
You are right, what is it you ask? Tonight, at 9 p.m., April 27, 2022, the doors opened once again, historically marking the newly remodeled grand reopening of the Palms in Las Vegas, Nevada.
After undergoing a $600 million renovation, the 766-room, 20-year-old, off-Strip Palms resort did not look a day over a swaddling, one-year-old toddler. Well, er…maybe just an itsy-bitsy older. But who’s counting, right?
But one thing is for certain, though, there was not a sad eye in the opening crowd, estimated to be over a thousand people roaming the newly designed resort.
It was a spectacular and rewarding evening in many respects. Now under the new ownership of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and its operating arm, the San Manuel Gaming and Hospitality Authority, it has the distinction of being the first southern Nevada resort to be completely owned by a Native American tribe.
The highly varied mix of restaurants and bars is tantalizing, including the reintroduction of the highly popular Scotch 80 Prime and Mabel’s BBQ restaurant, which I personally love.
And many of their employees could not be happier- nearly half of their original 900 employees who were on board before the shutdown are now back working.
And timing? Well, the day after the reopening, the over 94,000- square-foot resort will eagerly welcome the three-day NFL draft in Las Vegas- another first for the City of Lights – estimated to usher in approximately up to a million visitors.
