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Boyd's
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This page was updated 2/27/09 |
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updated 1/2/07 |
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Other Boyd related pages within
VegasTodayAndTomorrow.com |
Visit the Boyd Gaming website |
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Echelon |
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Visit the Echelon website |
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Remembering Stardust |
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Boyd's Vegas
Boyd Gaming is a big player in the Las Vegas
Valley. Boyd owns The Stardust (soon to be Echelon )
Samstown, Orleans, Main Street Station, California, Eldorado,
Fremont, Jokers Wild, and two Coast properties;
Gold Coast and
Sun Coast. Boyd also owns casinos in several other states.
Boyd has big plans for the near future including the ambitious
$4-billion
Echelon
(replacing the Stardust) and a newly announced Park Highlands
Casino/Resort/Spa in North Las Vegas.
This page will explore all of Boyd's new projects.
When a new Boyd project gets closer to construction,
VegasTodayAndTomorrow will add a page dedicated to it.
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Boyd Gaming News & Views |
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News
4/13/09 Boyd may acquire Station Casinos
It seems that Boyd Gaming offered $950-million to acquire
Station Casinos assets. This would give Boyd everything except Red Rock Resort and the Palace, Boulder and Sunset
Stations. Boyd is also interested in purchasing those four exceptions as well.
You see, Boyd is cash-fat as they still have the $2 billion in liquidity for the stalled
Echelon, which would be canceled and sold
(probably to Wynn - wouldn't that be a kick)?
Boyd was planning to build a new resort near and (competing with)
Aliante Station. With this acquisition, those plans are unneeded.
This would make Boyd the 'Locals King', with roughly 1/3 of the locals properties and nothing on the Strip. Boyd knows the locals market will most likely recover from this economy crap before the
Strip recovers. This would also save Station from their eminent bankruptcy.
Nothing was said about the large parcel Station acquired for their
Viva Vegas project on the Wild Wild West site.
Read more and
Join the discussion on the blog
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Gold Coast
4/22/08 Gold Coast is Getting New Rooms (and nice ones at that)
Boyd's Gold Coast is known for
being a great value and for having smallish rooms with motel-like
furnishings. Well, those days will soon be over when they present their new
rooms in June 2008. The project (which is being done in two phases) is a
complete renovation of the existing rooms.
The biggest challenge was the
tiny, split bathrooms. They are removing the wall which separates the wee,
tub/toilet area from the open sink/closet area, and installing a cool
sliding-door to close off the whole thing. This is a huge improvement and
allows more privacy when sharing a room. The plastic (skin-graft-tan)
"Jetsons-Space-Pod" tubs are being replaced with marble and glass shower
stalls (welcome to the real 21st century).
The furnishings and carpet are going from "Motel 6" to "Modern Chic". A
large armoire relieves the bathroom for closet-duty.
The photos (below) show the new room and the old room for comparison.
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News
4/13/08 Boyd Announces Plans for a New
North Las Vegas Casino
Boyd announced that they
are planning a new casino-resort in the Park Highlands development in North Las
Vegas and scraping the plans for the previously
proposed casino in the northeast corner of North Las Vegas. The
Park Highlands Casino/Resort/Spa will be
about three miles east of the
Aliante Station Resort
which is being built by Station Casinos (Boyd's biggest competitor).
The northwest corner of North Las Vegas is
one of the fastest-growing areas in the Las Vegas Valley, which is the main
reason for the change.
For this project, Boyd Gaming will partner with
Olympia Group (developers of the Southern Highlands development).
The 66-acre project will include 1,200 rooms (built in three phases), a spa,
restaurants, retail and a host of other entertainment features.
Boys expects to break ground in three to five
years (after the area is more built-out).
Read the Press Release here
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News
6/19/07 Echelon Breaks Ground - Visit our
Echelon page
for photos, renderings and details
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News - Harrah's Gets Barbary Coast - Boyd Gets Room for
Expansion of Echelon
10/02/06
Harrah's Entertainment and Boyd Gaming finally agreed on the
trade of the former Westward Ho and adjacent property for the
Barbary Coast. In the real world, trading a 4.3 acre lot for a 24
acre lot 1.5 miles away, doesn't seem like a good deal but Vegas is
not the real world. This agreement will be consummated in the
first quarter on 2007.
This deal makes the most sense for both players.
It gives Boyd 24 acres which are adjacent to the 63 acre Stardust
and Budget Suites sites (which are being redeveloped into the $4
billion Echelon) for a
whopping 87 contiguous acres. According to an undisclosed official
at Boyd Gaming, the plans for Echelon will not be altered by
the newly acquired property. That property will be developed as
Phase II after Echelon is completed and used for staging
during the construction of Echelon Place.
It gives Harrah's control of three corners of the hottest
intersection in Vegas and the ability to move ahead with a more
"lofty" master-plan.
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 10/31/06 Stardust's Last Night
It is with a lump in my throat that I
bid farewell to my favorite classic lady on the strip. After 48
continuous years of operation, the
Stardust closes her doors
forever to make room for
Echelon. The Stardust has a long and sordid history in Las Vegas.
The movie Casino (which was based on
a true story) was about the Stardust (called the Tangiers in the
film) and Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal (renamed Sam "Ace" Rothstein
in the film). Although the Riviera was used for the interior shots
and the (now long gone) Landmark Hotel was used for the Porte
Cochere shots, the Stardust was the true star of the film and was a
hotbed of syndicate dealings in those early days.
After all the riffraff was gone and
Boyd bought the hotel, the Stardust cleaned up her act and remained
a well maintained, wonderfully staffed resort.
Boyd will now ready the Stardust for
her impending implosion which is projected for March 2007, to make
room for Echelon.
Click here for many images and
history on our Remembering Stardust page.
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Boyd Sells South Coast Resort
10/24/06
Boyd Gaming sold the new
South Coast Hotel, Casino and Spa to
Michael Gaughan. Boyd owns all the Coast properties and will take
the Coast name with them. Gaughan has changed the name of the
resort to South Point, which went into effect on 10/24/06.
Michael Gaughan was a
former owner of the Coast hotel chain which Boyd purchased from him
in 2004. Gaughan was unhappy under the thumb of Boyd's corporate
structure and Boyd was unhappy with the performance of South Coast's
first year of operation. Gaughan traded his equity in Boyd Gaming
for the new South Coast resort.
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Boyd Buys Site for a Resort in North Las Vegas
2/11/06 Boyd Gaming Corp. will pay
$35 million for a 40-acre site zoned for casino development in the rapidly
growing city of North Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas-based company said it expects to begin work on the site next
year to build what it called a full-service casino hotel. Plans have not
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