[3] It was built at a cost of $25 million by a group of ten Nevada businessmen, including the owners of Reno's Club Cal Neva.

[4] Though smaller than typical Vegas resorts even before today's megaresort era, the Maxim had a popular following because of its attention to personal service.

Shakur was a passenger in a BMW that was driving in front of the casino, when a man in a Cadillac pulled up and opened fire, gravely wounding the rap star.

[14][15] With Premier in default on its mortgage payments, the Maxim was placed into receivership at the request of the mortgageholder, Meralex; two weeks after its closure, the hotel reopened without a casino.

[25] In November 2010, lenders CWCapital Asset Management LLC[26] filed for foreclosure on The Westin Casuarina, after Columbia Sussex stopped making payments on the property's $160 million mortgage in April.

In January 2016, Fortress Investment Group acquired the property through foreclosure, and brought Crescent Hotels & Resorts in to manage it.

[29][32] Fortress sold the Westin in September 2018 for $196 million to hotel firm Highgate in partnership with Cerberus Capital Management.