Red Rock Resorts has announced plans to close and demolish its Wild Wild West casino property on Tropicana Avenue near the Las Vegas Strip. This comes just six weeks after the company announced similar plans for three other properties in the area, those being Fiesta Henderson, Texas Station and Fiesta Rancho.
Michael Britt, a spokesman for Red Rock, confirmed to the Nevada Independent that the property would close at midnight on Wednesday, September 7. Britt noted that current Wild Wild West employees would have opportunities at other Station Casinos locations, a Red Rock subsidiary.
The company also announced that it would combine the 20 acres that Wild Wild West currently sits on with an adjacent 80-acre plot that it also owns, for a new project that has yet to be announced. This differs from the previous three locations mentioned above, in that Red Rock plans to sell those plots once the properties are demolished.
According to public records, Red Rock has owned Wild Wild West since 1998. Its hotel was managed by a separate party.
It’s been a busy summer so far for Red Rock—in addition to the shuttered properties, the company also purchased two additional tracts of land in recent months: a 128-acre site on the south side of Las Vegas Boulevard and a 67-acre plot in North Las Vegas.
The company has long used the strategy of buying large plots in lesser-populated areas and sitting on them for long periods of time—the site for the Durango Station project, which is currently under construction, was purchased over 15 years ago.
