“I’d rather see something that the Golden Knights would put up over there,” Lee said. But he’d like to see a Vegas Golden Knights-sponsored venue there for the long term. Lee also is happy Station intends to keep the Pepsi Ice Arena, adjacent to Fiesta Rancho, for as long as Station continues to own the land. They see the growth out there as being something very attractive to building a very nice world-class casino in that area.” “Their building would be on the (north) side of the 215. about 3 miles west of that site),” he said. “They say it will be as nice or nicer than the Aliante (the hotel-casino operated by Station rival Boyd Gaming Corp. “They would like to put another casino in, I think, off Losee and the 215 (Beltway),” he said. Lee is happy that Station intends to reinvest in North Las Vegas with an all-new casino project. Fiesta Rancho and Texas Station occupy around 72 acres. Just east of the Fiesta Rancho site are a Walmart Supercenter and medical offices. We’re not against that at all.”īut we’re not expecting big-box buildings to be built over there. “If it’s another casino, that would be great. “(Texas Station) had bowling alleys, movie theaters, they had a lot of stuff over there and it blended well,” Lee said.

Lee, who ran an unsuccessful campaign for the Republican nomination for governor against several opponents in June, said the North Las Vegas City Council wouldn’t be opposed to another casino opening at that corner.

And so we’re going to look at what we can do to not impact that community with just a lot of traffic. “There’s a community over there that needs services. “Somebody who buys that (land) may think they’re going to put big-box stores in that area,” Lee said in response to Friday’s announcement that Station intends to permanently close Texas Station and Fiesta Rancho, demolish the buildings and sell the land.

North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee, in office until he is term-limited out at the end of the year, also remains hopeful that the land might become home to another casino, although that doesn’t appear to be in the cards, according to Station executives. demolishes its two hotel casinos at Lake Mead Boulevard and Rancho Drive in North Las Vegas, the mayor of the city hopes the land will be converted to commercial uses and not big-box stores. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Red Rock Resorts’ Station Casinos Inc. Fiesta hotel-casino photographed on Monday, May 18, 2020, in Henderson.

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