With less than a month to go before Primm’s final operating casino and businesses were set to close, a Primm family representative said Thursday that it’s “highly possible” for a new operator to take over the businesses and potentially save hundreds of jobs in the California border town.
In an interview with The Nevada Independent on Thursday, Cory Clemetson, the grandson of town founder Ernie Primm and CEO of the Primm family business, said discussions with a “well-respected gaming operator” have proceeded to the stage where he believes “Primm will not be going dark on July 4.”
Las Vegas-based Affinity Gaming announced in early May that the last of Primm’s three casinos would permanently close July 4, along with Primm Center, which has several food and sundries outlets, the Flying J truck stop and the Primm Valley Lotto Store, just across the state line in California. Some 344 workers are set to lose their jobs, nearly 75 percent of whom will have to vacate their company-owned apartments behind the casinos…