“When we looked at our potential development sites across the valley it was an absolute no-brainer to look at the southwest and the Durango location,” Scott Kreeger, president of Red Rocks Resorts, told reporters at the groundbreaking. A ceremonial groundbreaking for Durango Station was held March 11. That never happened either.ĭurango Station is Station Casino’s first new casino project since its flagship Red Rock Resort opened in 2006.

In 2009, amid fallout from the Great Recession, the company toyed with a scaled-down version. Station Casinos LLC bought the land from developer Jim Rhodes in 2000 and there were initial plans to open by 2004. The casino project has long been expected. Richardson Builders, general contractor on the project, was available for comment. The company’s website on the project also says there will be multiple bike lanes to access the property with “ample bike parking.”Ī representative at Station Casinos corporate office on Thursday said there was no additional information to share at this time. Some 40 electric car-charging stations will also be on-site. The race and sports book will have both inside and outside views, according to a previously published report. Some 20,000 square feet of convention space is planned. When complete, Durango Station will have 200 rooms and suites along with an 83,000-square-foot casino with a race and sports book. Several cranes are currently at work on the $750 million project.

The construction site and eventual home of Durango Station at the southwest corner of the intersection currently cover 49 acres at the corner of Durango Drive and Maule Avenue. The cranes and construction crew near the Beltway and Durango Drive are working on Durango Station - the long-awaited casino from Station Casinos LLC. Those giant cranes crisscrossing the desert sky along the 215 Beltway are tangible signs of a new casino underway in Las Vegas.

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