UNLV School of Medicine and its first permanent facility will be named after the late Kirk Kerkorian, a Las Vegas gaming pioneer known as the father of the Las Vegas megaresort. The naming of The ...

MGM Resorts (NYSE:MGM) plans to remodel one of its most well-known Las Vegas Strip properties ... The resort was developed by Kirk Kerkorian, who had previously opened another MGM Grand in ...

What makes him powerful: Kerkorian stepped down as director in 2011 of MGM Resorts International, the largest casino operator on the Las Vegas strip. It counts the Bellagio, the Mirage ...

Kerkor "Kirk" Kerkorian was an investor in the Hughes ... Kerkorkian's MGM Grand was the sole casino to be constructed on the Las Vegas Strip between 1969 and 1989. The cost of creating a resort ...

There's no indication that a leopard has ever changed its spots, so while Kirk Kerkorian and his Tracinda ... to gobble up or influence Ford. The Las Vegas-based investment firm went on to say ...

And by the end of the year, Kirk Kerkorian’s MGM Grand Inc. opened ... an attraction-based concept would bring a new crowd to Las Vegas. “Now we’re seeing the signs of Las Vegas going ...

In the 1950s, showgirls became the unofficial icon of Las Vegas. As the Strip developed ... One such entertainer was Elvis Presley. When Kirk Kerkorian completed his International Hotel in ...

Las Vegas buildings fall and change (Tropicana ... at the Sahara pioneered the city's lounge scene in the 1950s), Kirk Kerkorian (the developer of what is now Westgate), Jay Sarno (who created ...

It died with the passing, this month, of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, the Las Vegas tycoon who built an empire on bold bets and gut instincts, The Economist argues in an oped. Kerkorian was a ...