But by 2015 a record 42.3 million people visited the city, and July 2016 saw 3.8 million visitors in a single month, setting another record. Visitor numbers fell to 37.48 million, and the city lost about another million footfalls the next year with a low of 36.35 million visits in 2009. New development stopped for awhile with the great recession of 2008. The downturn and recovery of Las Vegas Las Vegas has always been vibrant, resilient, and able to reinvent itself when needed. Known most recently as La Bayou, the casino closed along with Mermaids and Girls of Glitter Gulch on Jto make way for a new casino under development from relative newcomers, Derek and Greg Stevens, owners of D Las Vegas (formerly Fitzgerald's) the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center (DLV) and other downtown properties. The first licensed casino in Las Vegas opened at 15 Fremont Street in 1936 as the Northern Club.
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