Business & Industry in Las Vegas

Beyond the Strip's visible resorts, metro Las Vegas anchors several nationally significant corporate headquarters and at least one genuinely rare piece of infrastructure -- here are the named, verifiable companies and facilities behind that concentration.

Every item on this page clears one bar: not commonplace, not everywhere. These are real, named resources with their actual verified designation or certification — not a generic "has a hospital" or "has a gym" list. We left out anything we couldn't independently verify or that didn't clearly clear that bar, the same honesty rule used throughout this site — a shorter, accurate list beats a padded one.

Global corporate headquarters (NYSE: LVS)

Las Vegas Sands Corp.

Las Vegas Sands Corp. keeps its global corporate headquarters in Las Vegas even after selling its last local properties, The Venetian Resort and The Palazzo, in a 2022 sale -- its operating properties today are concentrated in Macao and Singapore's Marina Bay Sands.

Source: Las Vegas Sands -- Company

Fortune 500 corporate headquarters

MGM Resorts International

MGM Resorts International, a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, is headquartered on the Las Vegas Strip and operates properties including Bellagio, MGM Grand, and Aria, anchoring the metro's largest single private-sector employer cluster.

Source: MGM Resorts -- About

Uptime Institute Tier IV Gold-certified data center campus

Switch, Inc. -- The Core Campus

Switch, headquartered in Las Vegas, operates The Core Campus data center complex, which includes facilities the company says hold Uptime Institute's Tier IV Gold certification -- a rare distinction held by only a small number of facilities worldwide.

Source: Switch, Inc. -- Company site

Publicly traded resort headquarters (Nasdaq: WYNN)

Wynn Resorts, Limited

Wynn Resorts is headquartered in Las Vegas and operates its flagship Wynn Las Vegas and Encore properties in the same city as its corporate offices, alongside resorts in Macau, a new property in London, and one under development in the United Arab Emirates.

Source: Wynn Resorts -- Investor Relations

Amazon subsidiary headquartered in former Las Vegas City Hall

Zappos.com LLC

Zappos, the online shoe and apparel retailer acquired by Amazon in 2009, is headquartered in downtown Las Vegas's former City Hall building, which it moved into in 2013 and continues to occupy as its corporate home.

Source: Zappos -- About Us

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