“Go do demographics around every local casino site in Las Vegas, and you’ll see that Durango is an absolute no-brainer,” billionaire Frank Fertitta III, chairman and CEO of Station parent Red Rock Resorts, told analysts this spring.Īsked what makes this site better than its other properties for a casino project now, company spokesman Michael Britt told me in an email: “Durango is clearly the most attractive development opportunity right now by almost every imaginable demographic.”Īsked if Station has determined when and where it would build its next resort in Southern Nevada after the one on Durango, he replied: “No.” It also doesn’t sit on the outskirts of the valley like some of Station’s other land holdings. It has freeway access and visibility and an expanding population nearby. However, local real estate pros have long figured the Durango site would be the first among Station’s desert parcels to get developed.

The locals-focused casino operator owns big tracts of land around the valley that are basically in storage for future resort projects. It has not released an estimated project cost. Station has said it aims to break ground early next year.

Plans call for a total of 452 rooms spread among two hotel towers, restaurants, entertainment and roughly 93,000 square feet of casino space, according to county documents. The Clark County Commission approved plans Wednesday for Station’s hotel-casino project along Durango Drive just south of the 215 Beltway, across the freeway from Ikea. Now, a long-planned development is set to take shape there as well: a Station Casinos resort. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) retail projects, housing tracts and big mixed-use ventures taking shape, the southwest Las Vegas Valley is among the most popular spots in the region for construction. Station Casinos-owned land on the west side of South Durango Drive just south of the 215 Beltway is shown on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, in Las Vegas.

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