Wynn Nightclub King Jesse Waits Confirms Move to James Packer’s New Las Vegas Resort (Exclusive)

Saying goodbye to XS and Tryst — Waits will have equity in the Alon Las Vegas, which is slated for a 2018 opening

Jesse Waits, former managing partner of XS (above right) confirmed his move to a new role with the Alon Las Vegas Resort (a preliminary rendering, bottom right). (Waits by Tomo for Alon, XS by Karl Larsen, Renderings of new Alon courtesy of Fox 5 Las Vegas)

There will be no more “waits” at top-shelf Las Vegas nightclub XS.

Jesse Waits, the brains and boss behind Steve Wynn’s club — the top revenue generating nightclub in America three years in a row — confirmed to TheWrap that he is taking a new executive role at the Alon, a proposed Las Vegas Strip resort slated to open in 2018.

Of his 17 years in the nightlife industry in Sin City, Waits is largely credited as the architect of Wynn’s cash-cow nightclub boom over the last 10 years, serving as the managing partner of both XS at Encore and Tryst at Wynn.

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