Luxury Travel

It’s Time to Rethink Vegas

With the opening of the Park MGM and a slew of other upgrades, the city is becoming—gasp!—rather sophisticated.
Photographer: Patrick Michael Chin

The Las Vegas you know and love (or hate) is in the midst of a reinvention.

More than $5 billion worth of construction investment has poured into “Sin City” recently—resulting in such flashy ribbon-cuttings as the $375 million T-Mobile arena (home venue to the Vegas Golden Knights, a team that just advanced to the conference finals in its first season) and plans for an NFL team (born the Oakland Raiders) to play in a glitzy, new $2 billion stadium.