“Being so close, it’s definitely something I’ll be back to,” he said.ĭespite living so close, the couple had to Uber on Tuesday night and were dropped off blocks away. The restaurant options and casino impressed Anchondo, who described the casino resort as upscale. They stood by one of several tables set up next to the pool and under a heater. Ruben Anchondo and Michelle DiTerlizzi live in nearby Rhodes Ranch and watched the almost 10-minute fireworks show from the exclusive outdoor viewing area with about 100 other guests, many of whom held their phones up to record.ĭiTerlizzi talked about the convenience of having a resort so close to home. The property has 2,300 slot machines and 60 table games, a 25,000-square-foot, 11-stall “Eat Your Heart Out” food hall, four standalone restaurants and two bars.įollow the excitement of Durango’s opening day:ĩ:03 p.m.

The 200-room, 83,000-square-foot-casino property is parent company Red Rock Resorts’ first new property in more than a decade. Station Casinos’ Durango Resort & Casino opened its doors to the public for the first time Tuesday. It lacks the nearby mountains, higher elevation, the get-away location/staycation, plus the allure of Downtown Summerlin.ĭurango Station will also cut into Red Rock’s business by slicing away some percentage of locals from the south part of the city, yet won’t gain much of the tourist market because no one wants come to Las Vegas to stay 8 miles off the Strip out in the middle of nowhere across the highway from an Ikea and a car dealership and pay $350 a night for a hotel room.Durango Casino & Resort in southwest Las Vegas, Thursday, Nov. So, it effectively will enjoy a geographic monopoly. There are only so many people willing and able to pay $350/night for hotel rooms and eat $250 meals in steakhouses.ĭurango Station will probably do well for a while because it’s the new casino and there’s no other gambling venue in the SW sector.

Nonetheless, I’m convinced that yet another casino company is cutting into a demographic that’s already saturated. I’m sure the “experts” have this all figured out. Still, I can’t help but wonder why StationCasinos (STN) abandoned Henderson (Fiesta) and North Las Vegas (Texas Station) completely, which both enjoyed loyal customer bases and then jumped across town to build yet another upscale casino-resort that is certain to cannibalize their own already highly-successful Red Rock property, just three miles away to the north. I’ll say this - what an impressive pace of construction. Now, look at Durango Station, which is set to open later this year. Months ago, this space was just a vacant lot off the freeway in southwest Las Vegas. EARLY THOUGHTS ABOUT DURANGO STATION (LAS VEGAS)

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