As the country marks 250 years, a Las Vegas-born historian says the city’s future will depend on how well it continues to reinvent itself in a gambling landscape that no longer belongs to Nevada alone.
“Las Vegas has had to evolve to keep up and get ahead,” said Dr. Michael Green. “48 of the 50 states now have some form of legal gambling.”
That shift raises questions about whether the city’s traditional casino-centered model still works.
Green says the industry has already moved into a new era.
“Whether or not the old business model works, it’s a different business model,” Green said. “And we’ve gone through this evolution where we had old fashioned illegal gamblers.”
