Marriott International’s plan to open two luxury hotels on the north Las Vegas Strip at the long-stalled Fontainebleau site. The project could finally provide crucial energy for a stretch on the north end that has been largely dormant for the better part of a decade. Quiet since 2009 because of recession-era construction delays, the project is slated to open in 2020 as the Drew Las Vegas, a 4,000-room integrated resort that will include a JW Marriott and a hotel under Marriott’s Edition brand, as well as a third eponymous hotel, the Drew, which will be overseen in part by former…

With the MGM’s Park, Jim Murren is playing the long game on the Strip. “We have a very strong feeling of what Las Vegas is going to look like five to 10 years from now,” the MGM Resorts International chairman said recently when describing the details of the Park, an entertainment and retail complex between the company’s New York-New York and Monte Carlo properties. “It’s very different from today—and when this is done in 2016 we’ll see if we’re right.” The Park is a bet on both the great outdoors (the kind of urban walking experience we’ve seen at Caesars’…