When the $1.3 billion sale was announced, Adelson called Sands Bethlehem “one of the leading regional entertainment and gaming destinations in the United States.”
Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire founder and leader of Las Vegas Sands, which built a more than $800 million casino on a former Bethlehem Steel site, died Monday night at 87. Bethlehem officials on Tuesday gave Adelson credit for revitalizing the site and seeing the casino project through.