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US – Red Rock to close and demolish Wild Wild West casino
By Phil - 5 September 2022
Less than two months after confirming plans to demolish three closed casinos, Red Rock Resorts has now confirmed it will close its Wild Wild West casino and hotel and implode the casino, making way for an 80 acres project which has yet to be detailed.
Red Rock Resorts spokesman Michael Britt said the casino would close this week with all the Wild Wild West workforce to be given jobs at other casinos operated by Station Casinos. It bought Wild Wild West in 1998 and operated it with just 164 slot machines, no table games and a 260-room hotel.
In July, Red Rock said it would demolish Texas Station, Fiesta Rancho and Fiesta Henderson, all of which had been closed since the start of the pandemic. It plans to sell the land off. Red Rock had detailed plans years ago to develop Viva, a Strip resort-sized project, which never saw the light of day due to COVID.
Red Rock has previously bought 128-acre of land off Cactus Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard South for $172m, adjoining a 57-acre piece of land that it already owned. It also bought 67-acre of land at Losee Road and the 215 Beltway in North Las Vegas, which it said it for a new casino.
Red Rock Vice Chairman Lorenzo Fertitta said the land purchases were ‘consistent with the strategy we’ve had for a long time.’
“Development parcels of this caliber are simply not available in Las Vegas any longer,” Station Casinos President Scott Kreeger added.
Red Rock is in the process of constructing the $750m Durango Station in southwestern Las Vegas.
