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Wynn Macau Prepares for Launch
Steve Wynn is excited about his newest project, the $1.2 billion Wynn Macau, the smallest hotel- casino ever taken on by the famous Las Vegas casino developer.
"This is my favorite time, a very exhilarating time. You get to see it all done, to see three-dimensionally all the thing's you've done," Wynn said.
The 600-room resort is less than a quarter of the size of its counterpart in Las Vegas, but there has never before been a hotel-casino development as big as the proposed Wynn Macau in the former Portuguese colony off the Chinese coast.
Wynn, with its "modest" hotel-casino, is in a sense taking the Chinese where they have never been before.
"This is my favorite moment in these projects, the period between when we wrap up (construction) and open because it becomes a training campus," Wynn said.
"We have it to ourselves. We can go anywhere, see everything we've done and even some things we forgot. It's quite exciting to see it all done," he added.
Wynn's contractor, a joint venture between Leighton Contractors Ltd. and China State Construction Ltd., recently turned over the whole project to the developer and owner, Wynn Resorts Ltd.
And China, with the second-largest, fastest-growing middle class in the world, is about to take Wynn on a ride for his money.
The casino is slated to open the casino-resort Sept. 5.
