Shuttered Eastside Cannery on line casino to be demolished, Boyd Gaming publicizes

Boyd Gaming is planning to demolish the Eastside Cannery Hotel and Casino, which closed in 2020 throughout the pandemic and by no means reopened. 

The resolution is a change from three years in the past, when Boyd officers stated they had been ready for the east Las Vegas market to enhance earlier than reopening the 300-room hotel-casino on the Boulder Strip.

“It has been more than five years since we closed Eastside Cannery, and there is not sufficient market demand to reopen the facility,” Boyd Gaming spokesman David Strow stated in an announcement Friday. “Given this, we are finalizing plans to demolish the building.”

Strow stated the corporate was in discussions to promote the location for residential use, and fencing was going up across the property Friday morning.

Boyd officers had stated a lot of Eastside Cannery’s enterprise migrated to the company-owned Sam’s Town Casino. The two properties are a half-mile aside on Boulder Highway.

Boyd Gaming acquired Eastside Cannery together with Cannery North Las Vegas for $230 million in 2016. The hotel-casino, which opened in 2008, had 65,000 sq. ft of gaming area, a particular occasions ballroom, a non-public membership on the sixteenth ground, one restaurant and two bars.

Boyd operates 10 casinos all through Southern Nevada.

Eastside Cannery was the final Las Vegas on line casino that hadn’t reopened following the pandemic, when the state ordered casinos to shut for 78 days in 2020. Three properties owned by Red Rock Resorts — Fiesta Henderson, Fiesta Rancho and Texas Station — had been bought and later demolished. 

One on line casino in Laughlin, the Colorado Belle which is owned by Golden Entertainment, has remained closed for the reason that pandemic.