The company also operates several Wildfire properties that aren’t hotels. Durango Casino & Resort in the Southwest Valley is reshaping an already fast-growing corner of the Las Vegas Valley. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) btesfaye. Station Casinos in recent years razed and sold land beneath three aging properties that closed during the coronavirus pandemic. Construction is underway for new Durango hotel-casino at South Durango Drive and 215 Beltway on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in Las Vegas. In 2021 the company got permits to build, and officials said a later phase would add a second hotel tower, a theater and entertainment area, and additional casino space. It is being built along Durango Drive, beside the Las. The imposing blue-glass property began construction in 2007 and sat unfinished on Las Vegas Boulevard for more than a decade.ĭurango - with slot machines, gambling tables, a sports betting area and four restaurants - was built on a 71-acre (29-hectare) property that had been sitting vacant since Station Casinos acquired it in 2000. Durango is a hotel and casino under construction in Rhodes Ranch, a community in the Las Vegas Valley. Next week, the $3.7 billion, 67-story Fontainebleau is due to open at the north end of the Strip. Several other familiar Las Vegas casinos have changed hands or rebranded in recent months. The 44-floor Circa opened in 2020 as the first new downtown property in 40 years. Durango is the first new casino property to open in Las Vegas since June 2021, when the $4.3 billion, 66-story Resorts World opened on the Strip.

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