Wynn combined the gaming savvy of early industry pioneers with the corporate know-how of Hughes and Kerkorian. He built The Mirage, the first major Strip property to open since Kerkorian's MGM Grand opened in 1973. With the merger of MGM Grand and Mirage, the days of the individual resort owner may be gone. Cortez says corporate ownership of the major gaming firms has improved the industry and the city. Although Cortez said corporations were right to carry Las Vegas into the future, Professor William Eadington, the director of the University of Nevada, Reno's Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, suggested Las Vegas owes its legacy to free-thinkers such as Wynn.
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