A very ambitious "Las Vegas style Casino Resort" could be coming to Spain very soon.

Las Vegas Sands Corp. wants to build a "Euro-Vegas" in Spain. I'ts CEO Sheldon Adelson has said, he was putting together a 15 billion euros (US$20.3 billion) plan for a massive strip-style casino resort in Madrid or Barcelona.

Sands is in talks with officials from both cities about the project, which could have 20,000 hotel rooms, millions of square meters of retail and convention space and create 180,000 jobs, Adelson told reporters in Singapore.

"I want to do a mini-Las Vegas in Europe," Adelson said yesterday. "I hope we can use the name Europe Vegas or Euro-Vegas."

There are plans to meet with contractors in the next two weeks and is assemble a team of architects and builders that would construct several resorts at once.

"We're very seriously considering this, we're very actively pursuing this, there's no reason why we can't do it." said Adelson who makes a regular appearance on the cover of Forbes magazine.

Las Vegas Sands invested about US$6 billion to build the Marina Bay Sands casino resort in Singapore, which opened last year. Adelson said Sands is seeking more land from Singapore to enlarge the casino's convention space because demand has been much higher than expected.

Sands also owns the Sands Macau and the Venetian Macau along with the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem in Pennsylvania, and the Venetian and the Palazzo in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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