Las Vegas Sands set to add Tech Office in Dallas Suburb

Miriam Adelson is set to up the stakes on her Texas resort and casino expansion by opening a Las Vegas Sands information technology office in Plano.

The gambling giant appears slated to join Hewlett Packard, Albertsons and Broadsoft at the Platinum Park building in the five-story, roughly 166,000-square-foot office building at 6080 Tennyson Parkway. The building lies along the Dallas North Tollway and was completed a decade ago, complete with conference, fitness, training and other facilities, according to the Dallas Business Journal.

Ron Reese, vice president of communications for Sands, told the outlet that Plano was selected for its concentration of high tech workers.

The new office space is the latest signal from Sands that they are dead set on bringing legalized casino gambling to both the Dallas-Fort Worth metro and Texas at large.

Since Miriam Adelson and the families of Sivan and Patrick Dumont purchased the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks from Mark Cuban in 2023, they’ve been making specific moves to ramp up the heat on Texas politicians to legalize gambling. In 2023, before the Mavericks purchase went through, they purchased the parcel of land that Texas Stadium, former home of the Dallas Cowboys, used to sit on. Adelson has since propped up pro-gaming politicians running for the Texas Senate in multiple cycles.

It’s no easy task to convince Texas legislators on legalizing the gambling industry. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has been the most vocal critic of the industry in Texas, and under his watch efforts to bring legalized gambling to a vote have gone further than in years past, but still faltered. Despite the opposition, Adelson has systematically made moves that presume legalization is inevitable.

Moving a portion of their technology offices to Plano is another indication that the deep-pocketed resort-casino company is playing the long game. If the goal is to bring professional basketball together with a resort-casino building, the Maverick’s lease at the American Airlines Center isn’t up until 2031.

— Hunter Cooke