Las Vegas Weekly

April 28, 2010 · 6:11 PM

First photos: Sheldon Adelson opens Marina Bay Sands in Singapore

By Robin Leach

Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, center, take part in the ribbon cutting at Marina Bay Sands Singapore on April 27, 2010.

Photo: Marina Bay Sands

As we reported yesterday, Las Vegas hotel tycoon Sheldon Adelson, alongside wife Dr. Miriam Adelson, at 3:18 p.m. yesterday Singapore time officially cut the yellow ribbon to open his $5.5 billion luxury Marina Bay Sands project in the Asian country, and here are two photos from the momentous occasion.

Yesterday was the opening of Phase 1 with nearly 1,000 hotel rooms, 300 retail stores, a convention center holding 45,000 delegates, several restaurants and, of course, the casino itself with 1,000 tables and 1,400 slot machines.

Phase 2, with another spectacular gala opening, is scheduled for June 23, with the remainder of the 2,560 suites opening and a branch of the Los Angeles nightclub Avalon with Bruce Willis and Dan Aykroyd as business partners.

Wall Street bankers are predicting that Marina Bay Sands will not only pay for itself within five years, but also revenues within 12 months will exceed all of Sheldon’s gaming empire in the U.S.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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