Businessman/VGK Owner Bill Foley Does It Again: Another Business Opening, But This Time It’s Close To Home In Vegas

August 29, 2024 Alan Snel Bill Foley

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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

Golden Knights owner Bill Foley’s business dealings span the globe. For example, he owns or has interests in soccer teams from England to France to New Zealand.

He even launched a VGK worldwide fan club after the NHL Vegas franchise was born in 2017.

Foley’s latest business endeavor is closer to his Las Vegas home — but with a travel twist.

Foley is opening a Golden Knights-theme restaurant at Harry Reid International Airport next month called, “Vegas Born Bar & Grill.”

A joyful Bill Foley after the VGK won the Stanley Cup at T-Mobile Arena in June 2023.

The eatery concept is hardly a jump for Foley, who also owns restaurants like MacKenzie River Pizza Co. and Craggy Sports Bar and Grill at his ice rink and venue facilities here in metro Las Vegas.

The airport’s food/bev concessionaire, HMSHost, will join Golden Knights and airport staffers for a ribbon-cutting at the airport terminal Wednesday, Sept. 4.

Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.

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To contact LVSportsBiz.com Publisher Alan Snel or buy his book, Bicycle Man: Life of Journeys, email him at asnel@LVSportsBiz.com

LVSportsBiz number for 2024: $1,178,161,041. That’s the amount of debt Las Vegas (actually, Clark County) owes for its public share of building the Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium.