Expansion plans for the Durango Casino & Resort are moving forward.
After opening in December, the resort, on the southwest side of Las Vegas, has been successful, which led to Station Casinos deciding to add to the property.
The expansion plan actually isn’t new. The company always planned to add infrastructure to Durango’s footprint, but UNLV history professor Michael Green points out that the casino’s busy first seven months in existence hasn’t been lost on anyone.
“They were planning for a second phase when they opened,” Green says. “They wanted to, of course, see how it would do and it’s clearly done well.”
For the first three months of 2024, Red Rock Resorts, the publicly-traded parent company of Station Casinos, reported just under $486 million in net revenues for its Las Vegas casino operations, an increase of 13% from the first quarter of 2023.
Station Casinos, a success story when it comes to locals casinos, has only leaned into its reputation as it nears its 50th year in business. In fact, Monday marked 48 years since the first Station Casinos property opened its doors.