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At last, Durango Station details

Groundbreaking for hotel-casino project to come in 2009; opening slated for 2011

By ARNOLD M. KNIGHTLY
REVIEW-JOURNAL

The first phase of Station Casinos' Durango Station Resort and Casino will include a 201-room hotel tower, casino, meeting space, pool, restaurants, movie theater, arcade and a large shopping complex. Station Casinos will break ground for the project in 2009 and open it in 2011.
Both renderings courtesy Station Casinos



The design of the large shopping complex planned to complement Durango Station Resort and Casino will be similar to the one for The District at Green Valley Ranch, Station Casinos officials said. The District was constructed after Green Valley Ranch Resort opened in December 2001.



Future location of Durango Station Resort and Casino

Jackie Guinn is tired of looking at the big sign promising a Station Casinos project near her home.

Since moving into the Rhodes Ranch master-planned community in 2003, Guinn has wondered when 70 vacant acres on Durango Drive just south of the Las Vegas Beltway would become the promised hotel and casino.

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    • "That sign was there before my place was even built," said Guinn. "I kept looking at the sign, looking at the sign."

    Guinn received her answer this week during a community open house at Red Rock Resort where Station Casinos unveiled plans to break ground on Durango Station Resort and Casino next year, with a 2011 opening.

    The first phase will include a 201-room hotel tower, casino, meeting space, pool, restaurants, movie theater, arcade and a large shopping complex.

    An additional 525 hotel rooms are planned for a second phase although the company has not set a construction date yet.

    The company isn't releasing a projected cost for the project.

    Plans for the 190,000-square-foot outdoor retail center adjacent to the resort will be submitted to Clark County officials next week. Durango Station will be the first time the company has built a large-scale retail development as part of one of its hotel-casinos.

    Station Casinos is in the final stages of signing a joint-venture partner to help develop and operate the retail complex, company spokeswoman Lori Nelson said.

    The retail complex's design will be similar to the one for The District at Green Valley Ranch, company officials said. The District was constructed after Green Valley Ranch Resort opened in December 2001 and was built by a subsidiary of the Greenspun Corp.

    Company officials did tell the nearly 300 homeowners that attended the open house that the proposed project will be "subject to market conditions."

    For instance, the day after the open house, nearly $4 billion worth of Station Casinos debt was downgraded by New York-based Moody's Investor Service. Moody's made the move because of the sharp decline in the Las Vegas gaming revenues during the past few months.

    Station Casinos also is carrying nearly $3.2 billion worth of debt following the company's $5.4 billion management-led buyout that closed in November.

    Despite the economic slowdown, the company began interviewing applicants on Monday to fill positions at the $675 million Aliante Station, which opens Nov. 11 in North Las Vegas.

    Station Casinos purchased the 70-acre Durango site from homebuilder Jim Rhodes in 2000 for an undisclosed amount. Rhodes had set aside the parcel on the outskirts of the Rhodes Ranch master-planned development in the southwestern valley.

    Rhodes Ranch resident Janice Mullins said during the open house that she is looking forward to the project being built but is concerned about possible traffic congestion along Durango Drive and the surrounding neighborhood.

    "The project itself looks like a very nice project to complement the area," Mullins said.

    Guinn said it will be nice to finally have a hotel nearby where friends and family can stay when visiting. Now she has to travel to The Orleans or Red Rock Resort to find accommodations.

    Guinn said she hopes the mixed-use development will spur other development in the area including some more common areas promised by Rhodes.

    "They were supposed to build a park out there five years ago," Guinn said. "Maybe once this is all said and done then somebody can get out there and get that park in place."

    Contact reporter Arnold M. Knightly at aknightly@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3893.

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    Bob wrote on July 31, 2008 05:09 PM: Sounds like Tambora (see Joseph McCarthy) is slightly paranoid! I do my best to smuggle only 10 illegals per day into this country. What, shall I reduce it to 5? How will I ever get my landscaping done? For all the complaining, your probably unemployed...too good to get you hands dirty...


    Tambora wrote on July 23, 2008 04:27 AM: You limousine riding mercedes liberal Pigs better wait until the first wednesday in November before you start any building. If your community organizer happens to live on pennsylvania ave, america as you know it will be over. 40 million SPANISH SPEAKERS legalized in THE NEXT four years will do it. There are 20 to 25 million illegals in america right now, NOW add in a few family members, and you will get 40 million. Wait and see who is right, and Don't expect your local Govt. for any help, just go west on charleston, and you will see your local METRO at work. They hand out seat belt violations to working americans on their way to work in the morning, and do nothing with the illegals hanging all over the streets. When will you wake up, and VOTE these JOKES out of office. WAKE UP BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.


    Josh Dobbins wrote on July 21, 2008 12:12 PM: The retail center is great news; bring on the traffic, we can handle it. What about a library though... and the Rhodes Family Park needs to be built before 2011, our kids need a grassy field to run around and stretch their legs.


    Anthony wrote on July 19, 2008 09:00 PM: "I thought gaming revenue is down? By opening up casinos in just about every neighborhood Station Casinos will just canabalize it's existing customer base"

    Better to divide your own customers between your properties than to let someone else come in and take them away from you.

    Still, no bowling center? The standard Stations Property has all that stuff and a bowling center.


    nsa wrote on July 19, 2008 05:17 PM: Rhodes Ranch is a masterplanned community of 10,000 with roads to support 2,000. I lived there in 2000-2001 when the only problem was a lack of a completed beltway and a one lane Durango Drive. But now the beltway and Durango are completed the congestion is worse than ever! I'm glad I don't live there now.


    homeless in Las Vegas wrote on July 19, 2008 02:23 PM: And our values will come back too.

    Yeah, there is nothing like a locals casino to drive up the value of the surrounding properties.


    Randall wrote on July 19, 2008 10:46 AM: After seeing the Curve, Sullivan Square cancelled, and the ridiculous failure of Spanish View Towers, this may be the last saving grace for the 215 curve area.

    We'll wait and see.


    2010 wrote on July 19, 2008 10:25 AM: As a homeowner next to the project I want this one to happen as it will improve this "extremely" underserved neighborhood. The retail going in will be great w/ top notch tenants similar to those in Town Square. Forget the District, forget Summerlin, we want to rival Town Square's ammenities, look and feel. Only then will the other projects announced over the years in the immediate vicinity happen and further support the project. And our values will come back too. Move up the date and change the name to something a bit richer.


    george wrote on July 19, 2008 07:54 AM: Guinn is right, Jim Rhodes promised to build a park nearby the school 5 years ago, and now know the plan about retails, i am afraid they might back out to build retails.commercial to make more money. The park suppose to be done by 2006 but until now it's empty lot. Also, overbuilt house inhouse rhodes ranch cause value to drop is bad....booo booo to Rhodes


    Herb wrote on July 19, 2008 04:00 AM: I thought gaming revenue is down? By opening up casinos in just about every neighborhood Station Casinos will just canabalize it's existing customer base.