The locals-focused casino chain has extensive land holdings in Southern Nevada and wants to double its portfolio by 2030. The company has stated the ice rink attached to Fiesta will remain standing.Īll told, the demolitions are part of a broader push by Station to overhaul its presence in the region. Station began demolishing the 1990s-era gambling outpost in September, following parent company Red Rock Resorts’ announcement last summer that it would tear down Texas Station, Fiesta Rancho and Fiesta Henderson and sell the sites.Īll three had been closed since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020.Ĭompany spokesman Michael Britt confirmed Wednesday that Texas Station was torn down but noted work is ongoing at the property along Rancho Drive at Lake Mead Boulevard.ĭemolition work at neighboring Fiesta Rancho is expected to start soon, Britt said. As seen Wednesday, the buildings and other structures that comprised the Station Casinos-owned property are gone, including the decorative wooden oil derrick that stood out front. Work crews demolished the North Las Vegas hotel-casino, leaving mounds of debris on the nearly 50-acre site. (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Station is reduced to rubble. All rights reserved.Heavy machinery at the now-demolished Texas Station property next to Fiesta Rancho Hotel and Casino on Wednesday, Feb. Unions create that middle class.”Ĭopyright 2023 The Associated Press. “We know that we can’t be a society where it’s just upper class and lower class. This is the labor movement’s time,” Lilla said. The union said it had been patient with the casino companies over seven months of negotiations that spurred large-scale rallies on the Strip, including one in October that brought rush-hour traffic to a halt and ended with the arrests of 58 hotel workers who sat in the street in what they described at the time as a show of force ahead of any potential strike. We want to be protected, as well as for our guests.” We need emergency buttons in our service bars. “We don’t feel safe on the casino floor,” veteran Bellagio cocktail waitress Leslie Lilla told The Associated Press. Hospitality workers - from bartenders and cocktail servers to kitchen employees and housekeepers - have also said they want better job security amid advancements in technology, as well as stronger security protections, including more safety buttons. She declined to say how much the union is seeking in pay raises because, she said, “we do not negotiate in public,” but the union has said it is asking for “the largest wage increases ever negotiated” in its history.

Members currently receive health insurance and earn about $26 hourly, including benefits, union spokesperson Bethany Khan said.

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