“As the site is under construction, we will have more details in the coming weeks,” Station Casinos further said. In a statement Friday, the company said it is “excited to bring a new Wildfire casino with fresh new amenities to the local residents of downtown Las Vegas.”
These are typically heavy on slot machines and video poker with casual dining options, mostly catering to locals. Station, a subsidiary of Red Rock Resorts, already operates 10 Wildfire-branded casinos, including seven in Henderson.
City records retrieved by the cited source show the one-story project will span more than 21,000 square feet and sit on a 5-acre plot of land. It comes as work is already underway on another company project in the Las Vegas Valley -the $750 million Durango Casino & Resort-, but this new, and thus far unnamed project, is set to be much smaller in scale.Īccording to a Las Vegas Review-Journalreport, work crews are now building a Wildfire casino on Fremont Street, just south of Charleston Boulevard, in the downtown area. Casino and hotel company Station Casinos is building a new project in downtown Las Vegas.