Before talking about his new role on the north Strip, Jim Murren recalls growth to the south.
The new chairman of the board of Resorts World refers to the company Circus Circus Enterprises. Not the old hotel-casino, but the former umbrella company that caused a stir by building a mega-resort on the south Strip more than 25 years ago.
“Circus Circus, when it was a public company, before it renamed itself Mandalay Resort Group, worked hard to develop the south end of the Strip,” Murren says during a Thursday afternoon lounge chat at Ocean Prime at 63 CityCenter. “They anchored the south Strip with Mandalay Bay, which dramatically helped Luxor and Excalibur. It improved the entire neighborhood.”
