Boyd Gaming hires demolition agency to tear down shuttered Las Vegas Eastside Cannery hotel-casino | Casinos & Gaming

Boyd Gaming Corp. has employed a agency with a historical past of demolishing casinos to tear down a shuttered Las Vegas lodge, data present.

The Clark County Building Department on Oct. 20 issued a business demolition allow, valued at $7.5 million, for the Boyd-owned Eastside Cannery on Boulder Highway, data present.

Las Vegas Demolition is listed on the allow because the contractor. The agency, owned by brothers Joe and Sal Catania, tore down Fiesta Rancho, Fiesta Henderson and Texas Station, amongst different initiatives listed on its web site.

Those three properties had been owned by Station Casinos and, like Eastside Cannery, by no means reopened from the pandemic shutdowns.

Las Vegas Demolition declined to remark for this story.

Boyd spokesman David Strow mentioned Friday that there’s “not sufficient market demand to reopen” Eastside Cannery and that the corporate is “finalizing plans to demolish” the hotel-casino.

Boyd is also “in discussions to sell the site for residential use,” he mentioned.

Strow declined extra remark Monday.

Boyd acquired the Cannery hotel-casino in North Las Vegas and the Eastside Cannery, on Boulder Highway between Flamingo Road and Tropicana Avenue, for about $230 million mixed in 2016.

Eastside Cannery featured 300-plus lodge rooms, a 64,000-square-foot on line casino, a number of bars and eating places, a 250-seat leisure lounge and 20,000 sq. ft of assembly and ballroom house.

In March 2020, then-Gov. Steve Sisolak ordered casinos and different companies in Nevada closed to assist include the coronavirus outbreak. Nevada’s casinos had been allowed to reopen in June 2020, however Eastside Cannery remained closed.

Boyd bought the land beneath Eastside Cannery this previous February for $45 million, property data present. It had been leasing the roughly 29.5-acre footprint.

At the time, Boyd declined to touch upon the land buy.

Even although Eastside Cannery has been closed for enterprise, different organizations have made use of the positioning.

Three Square Food Bank used the property for a weekly meals distribution web site throughout the pandemic, and police and firefighters used it for coaching drills.

The Metropolitan Police Department performed coaching workouts at Eastside Cannery, together with room clearing, active-shooter situations and cadet seminars. Crime-scene investigators additionally used lodge rooms as a part of their academy testing.

Plus, the Clark County Fire Department used the property to coach on stairwells and to follow room searches and elevator rescues.

Las Vegas-based Boyd operates a number of different hotel-casinos in Southern Nevada, together with The Orleans, Suncoast, Gold Coast, California Hotel and, on Boulder Highway, Sam’s Town.

Contact Eli Segall at [email protected] or 702-383-0342.