They are betting that safety measures - disinfected dice hand sanitizer and face masks everywhere limited numbers of players at tables temperature checks at entrances to some resorts touchless cellphone check-ins - will lure tourists back to a one-industry city left eerily vacant during the pandemic. Now, property owners, state regulators and Sisolak, a Democrat who has been criticized for the closure, are balancing concerns about spreading a contagious virus against the economics of losing of billions of dollars per month in gambling revenue and gaining 475,000 newly unemployed workers. Steve Sisolak’s emergency order closed non-essential businesses statewide to prevent people from gathering and spreading the COVID-19 illness. “This is an extremely important moment.”Ĭasino resorts that had been famously always open were shuttered in mid-March - idling Nevada’s key tourism and hospitality industry nearly 89 years to the day since gambling was legalized in 1931. “There’s a tremendous amount on the line, not only for casinos, but for the community and the state,” said Alan Feldman, a longtime casino executive now a fellow at the International Gaming Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. There will be big splashes - even amid ongoing protests over the death of a man in police custody in Minnesota that resulted in tear gas in recent nights on the neon-lit Las Vegas Strip - and big hopes for recovery from an unprecedented and expensive shutdown prompted by the coronavirus pandemic.

Thursday at casinos in Las Vegas and Nevada. LAS VEGAS - After 58 days of historic quiet, cards will be cut, dice will roll and jackpots can jingle again 12:01 a.m.

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