Encore Facts & Figures
- Cost: Approximately $2 billion
- Opening: Late 2008
- Over 2,000 rooms
- 40,000 square-foot casino
From the Vegas4Visitors Weekly Update of April 2, 2007
Encore Update
The sequel to the hugely successful Wynn Las Vegas resort is well into its construction phase with the tower rising out of the ground just north of the existing hotel at the corner of The Strip and Desert Inn Road. It will feature more than 2,000 suites, a small (by Vegas standards) casino, shopping, restaurants, its own pool and recreation area, a spa, and more. The total price tag has soared over $2 billion and the hotel is expected to open in late 2008.
In the April 5, 2007 V4V photo at the right you can see the progress on Encore with the original Wynn Las Vegas to the right.
Construction Photos - October 2006
From the parking lot of the Frontier
From the parking lot of the Frontier, Wynn Las Vegas is to the right.
From the Vegas4Visitors Weekly Update of Dec 11, 2006
No Roof For Encore
In an interview in the Las Vegas Sun, casino impresario Steve Wynn says he has decided to go topless at his next casino-hotel. No, not like that. Original plans had the pool area at Encore, the sequel to Wynn Las Vegas, under a giant, retractable glass roof but those plans have been dropped. Instead the pool area will be open to the sky like most of the others in town and will feature some sort of giant water attraction that Wynn is not divulging the details of yet. Encore is expected to open in 2008.
From the Vegas4Visitors Weekly Update of May 1, 2006
Encore Groundbreaking
Steve Wynn led the charge of shovel toting VIPs last week to break ground on his newest resort, Encore. The ceremony was held on April 28, one year to the day after Wynn Las Vegas opened and 56 years after the hotel it replaces, The Desert Inn, opened. The new Encore will be erected adjacent to Wynn Las Vegas on the north side of the property and is scheduled for completion in December 2008. The expansion of the resort will be fully integrated with neighboring Wynn Las Vegas, containing all the usual elements one would expect in a $1.7 billion property including additional rooms, convention and meeting space, more casino space, restaurants, nightclubs, spa and salon, retail outlets and swimming pools including one that will be a year-round, indoor facility with a retractable roof.
From the Vegas4Visitors Weekly Update of February 20, 2006
Encore Groundbreaking Set for June
Encore, the new sister resort to Wynn Las Vegas, is scheduled to have a groundbreaking ceremony in June of this year with an opening date now expected in 2010. Details on the hotel keep changing as they move forward in the planning phases (see Avenue Q story above which means there will be one less theater) but here’s where it stands now: 2,000 all-suite rooms of more than 700-square feet apiece, a new casino, restaurants, its own pool and spa, and additional retail outlets. Encore will be built just to the north of the existing Wynn Las Vegas building and will be connected but will function as a separate entity with its own check-in and staff. Total cost: approximately $1.4 billion.
From the Vegas4Visitors Weekly Update of March 21, 2005
Wynn Update: Encore, Encore
A little more than a month before the unveiling of his $2.7 billion namesake hotel, Steve Wynn is moving forward on plans for a second mega-resort right next door to be named Encore. Originally discussed as an expansion of Wynn Las Vegas with 1,500 rooms and an expanded casino for about $900 million, the new blueprint for Encore creates a separate property (although the two will be connected) with 2,000 rooms, a much bigger casino than originally planned, restaurants, meeting space, nightclubs, a high-tech concert hall, and much more, all for around $1.4 billion. The place will aim to out-luxury even Wynn Las Vegas, with all the rooms over 1,000-square-feet and going for around $400 a night minimum.
This is the not the first time Mr. Wynn has changed what was meant to be an expansion to its own deal. After The Mirage opened in 1989, Wynn planned to add a second tower to the hotel just to the north and east of the existing building. Those plans morphed into what is now Treasure Island.
Wynn Las Vegas is due to open February 20, 2006.
From the Vegas4Visitors Weekly Update of November 15, 2004
Wynn Las Vegas Expansion Details
Yes, yes, everybody knows he hasn’t even opened the first part of Wynn Las Vegas, but Steve Wynn is not the kind of guy to let a little thing like that prevent him from adding on to it. The casino mogul has released a few details about the expansion project while crews ready the first phase of the hotel for its April 28, 2005 opening. The expansion will be called “Encore at Wynn Las Vegas” and will feature 1,500 suites, an expanded casino, additional restaurants and entertainment venues, more pools and another spa, more high-end boutiques, and additional convention space. To make room for the $900 million “Encore” (that’s in addition to the estimated $2.5 billion he’s spending on the first part), Wynn construction crews will be imploding the last remaining Desert Inn buildings on the property on November 16th, but unlike splashy extravaganzas of the past, these blow-ups will occur quietly (well, as quietly as you can dynamite a building, I suppose) at 2:30am with no pomp and circumstance. The “Encore” is due to open in 2007.
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