How much did Flamingo Las Vegas cost to build?
The Flamingo Las Vegas is the casino resort on the Las Vegas Strip, originally the Flamingo Hotel conceived by Billy Wilkerson and taken over by Bugsy Siegel, whose casino opened on 26 December 1946, closed in early February for unfinished rooms and reopened with the hotel on 1 March 1947. The Mob Museum wrote in 2021 that construction costs escalated from an original budget of 1.2 million dollars to about 5 million, while Wikipedia gives a final price of 6 million.
Reported project cost
$5 million
Cost basis: 1946
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Reported project cost1946
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