Gottesman provided an additional $16,000 to hire an architect for the new project. Gottesman agreed to provide funding in exchange for a small portion of the hotel's profits. In the early 1950s, Al Gottesman, the retired owner of a movie theater chain who was living in Miami, received a request from two developers for a $58,000 loan that would be used to purchase desert property for a Las Vegas hotel. The Dunes golf course is now occupied by parts of Park MGM, New York-New York, Cit圜enter, Cosmopolitan, and T-Mobile Arena (home of the Vegas Golden Knights). Bellagio now stands on the former grounds.
Designed by architects John Replogle, Robert Dorr Jr., Milton Schwartz and Maxwell Starkman, it was the tenth resort to open on the Strip.
The Dunes Hotel was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, that operated from to January 26, 1993.
