1989 – July 1^st O’Shea’s opens.

1989 – Mirage opens November 22, with 3,039 rooms.

1990 – Population - 258,295

1990 – Excalibur opens June 19^th, at 4,032 rooms is the world’s largest to date.

1992 - January 1^st, Casino Royale opens.

1993 - Money won by Nevada casinos tops the $6 billion mark for the first time.

1993 - Dunes Hotel sold to Steve Wynn's Mirage Inc.; the north tower and Dunes sign imploded October 27.

1993 – October 15^th Luxor Las Vegas opens with 2,526 rooms.

1993 - Flamingo Hilton announces plans to raze Bugsy's suite and office.

1993 – Boardwalk Holiday Inn opens.

1993 – October 27^th Treasure Island Hotel opens with 2,900 rooms.

1993 – December 18^th, MGM Grand Hotel and Theme Park opens with 5,005 rooms and a 171,500- square-foot casino; to date the largest resort hotel-casino in the world.

1993 - Nevada Legislature passes enabling legislation for financing of "The Fremont Street Experience."

1994 - Plans to construct New York-New York Hotel Casino at the intersection of the Strip and Tropicana Avenue announced jointly by MGM Grand and Primadonna Resorts.

1994 - Work begins on Fremont Street Experience. Downtown Fremont Street is permanently closed to automobile traffic on September 7.

1994 - Four skywalks are built over the intersection of Tropicana Boulevard and the Las Vegas Strip.

1994 - McCarran opens Interstate 15-airport connector road system that tunnels under the east-west runways.

1995 - The first Hard Rock Hotel opens March 10.

1995 - $25 million monorail begins running between MGM Grand and Bally's hotel-casinos on June 14.

1995 - Construction begins on Steve Wynn's 46-story, $1.7 billion 3,000-room Bellagio, located at the intersection of Flamingo Road and the Las Vegas Strip.

1995 - The face of downtown Las Vegas changes forever with the December 13 opening of the $70 million Fremont Street Experience.

1995 - Las Vegas reports a 29 million visitor volume for the year. State wide gross gaming revenue surpasses $7.3 billion. Clark County produced $5.7 billion of the state's gaming revenue total.

1996 - Ground breaking ceremonies for Las Vegas Hilton's "Star Trek: The Experience" held on January 24.

1996 - The $13 million Las Vegas Strip beautification project, in which 76,000 palms, shrubs, flowering foliage and ground covers were planted, is finished in March.

1996 - Wayne Newton celebrates 25,000th Las Vegas performance. Siegfried and Roy celebrate 15,000th Las Vegas performance.

1996 - Stratosphere Tower, the tallest free-standing observation tower in the U.S. and the tallest structure west of the Mississippi River, opens April 30.

1996 - Caesars Magical Empire, a multimillion dollar dining and entertainment complex opens in Caesars Palace June 18.

1996 - Monte Carlo, a joint venture between Circus Circus Enterprises Inc. and Mirage Resorts Inc. opens June 21.

1996 - The $72 million, 1,100-acre Las Vegas Motor Speedway with tracks for drag, stock car and formula car races opens in September.

1996 - The Sands Hotel, after 44 years of continuous operation, is closed June 30 by owner Sheldon Adelson who announces plans to build a 6,000-room megaresort on the Las Vegas Strip site. Sands tower imploded November 26.

1996 - 29.6 million people visit Las Vegas in 1996.

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