Genting delays Resorts World Las Vegas project by another year

Stop us if you’ve heard this one, but Malaysian casino operator Genting’s $4b in-development resort on the Las Vegas Strip has been pushed back another year.

On Wednesday, the Getting Group announced that gaming industry veteran Edward Farrell (Harrah’s, Foxwoods, MGM) had been named president of Resorts World Las Vegas, Genting’s first effort to establish a casino presence in America’s top gambling hub.

The company also announced that it was pushing back RWLV’s scheduled opening by one year to 2020. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it was only last May that the company announced it was delaying RWLV’s opening by one year to 2019.

Early-stage construction is already underway on the project, but all the talk over the past couple years about younger demographics’ shifting preferences for how they spend their Vegas time apparently spooked Genting into rethinking its original design plans.