Mark Wahlberg helps Summerlin-area casino celebrate major transformation

Mark Wahlberg appeared at the recently renovated Suncoast Hotel and Casino on Tuesday night for a VIP celebration hosted by Boyd Gaming. The actor, who relocated his family to The Summit Club in Summerlin in 2022, praised Las Vegas as his home and expressed excitement about the property’s upgrades. “I emotion Las Vegas. This is my home,” Wahlberg told the assemblage gathered astir the caller BarSC Center Bar. “It was the champion determination to determination my household here. I couldn’t beryllium much excited.” Wahlberg, 55, noted his ongoing relationship with Boyd Gaming, which serves his Flecha Azul tequila across its 28 properties. He hinted at future collaborations, saying, “We’ve got immoderate peculiar things cooking with these guys, hopefully successful the precise adjacent future,” Wahlberg said. “They’ve been a immense protagonist of everything we’ve done since we’ve been here, truthful I wanted to travel to amusement my support.” He added, “It’s different large spot for maine to bent retired with my woman and ticker immoderate football. Go Red Sox.” The evening coincided with a loss for his beloved Boston Red Sox, who fell 9‑0 to the New York Yankees in their MLB playoff opener. Meanwhile, Suncoast unveiled the results of a multiyear renovation that began in 2023 with a new high‑limit slot room, continued with a new stadium-style sportsbook in 2024, a bingo room in 2025, and a refreshed food hallway and 70‑seat raised center bar debuted in July. Regular patron Donna McManus, who has played slots at Suncoast for the past decade, remarked, “It looks beautiful,” said Donna McManus, a regular slots subordinate astat Suncoast for the past 10 years. Her husband Ryan added, “It was dated and needed an upgrade,” helium said. “They needed to enactment wealth into the spot and they did a precise bully job. They truly did. This is simply a definite upgrade.” Karen Adams, a retiree from Tucson who visits monthly with