Stardust (hotel and casino)
| Stardust (hotel and casino) | |
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| Location |
 Las Vegas
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| opening | 2nd July 1958 |
| closure | November 1, 2006 |
| theme | space |
| room | 1,552 |
| owner | Boyd Gaming Corporation |
The Stardust was a hotel and casino on the Strip in Las Vegas in the US state of Nevada . It belonged to the Boyd Gaming Corporation. It was demolished in 2007.
Stardust
The building was originally conceived by Tony Cornero, who however died before completion. It last had 1,552 rooms; in the opinion of the operators too little for Las Vegas. The building from 1958 - initially the largest hotel in the world with 1,032 rooms at the time - housed the first Las Vegas casino for mass operation, as its prices were affordable. In the 1960s and 1970s, the casino was notorious for involvement with the Mafia .
The Stardust had a 23,000 m² event center, a car rental company, nine restaurants , a fitness center , a Pavilion exhibition area with 37,000 m², a sports betting office , a shopping center, a wellness bath, swimming pools and a wedding chapel.
On November 1, 2006, the hotel was officially closed and on March 13, 2007, after a pompous farewell fireworks display, it was controlled to implosion and collapsed. This should make room for a new hotel and entertainment complex. At 32 stories, the west tower was the tallest building ever to be brought down on the Las Vegas Strip. Only the famous neon sign was kept for posterity; it is on display at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas.
Echelon and World Resort Las Vegas
The gaming company Boyd Gaming wanted to build a multifunctional mega-center called Echelon on the approx. 35 hectare large, cleared and rounded area. The cost was estimated at $ 4.4 billion. The Echelon Place complex was to contain more than 5,000 hotel rooms in several different hotels, plus a shared casino area of 13,000 square meters. In addition, a good 90,000 square meters of conference rooms, an exhibition center with 60,000 square meters, a show stage with 4,000 square meters and a theater with 1,400 seats, a concert hall and a medium-sized shopping center were planned. Completion was initially scheduled for 2010, but work was suspended after an initial postponement and ultimately due to the global economic situation.
In 2013, the Genting Group bought the property and plans to build a hotel and casino there with an Asian theme.
Trivia
- Siegfried and Roy were engaged in the Stardust from 1970 to 1973 and from 1978 to 1981.
- Wayne Newton signed a ten-year contract with the Stardust in 1999; however, he left the house in April 2005.
- Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal was a manager at the Stardust. He was the model for Sam "Ace" Rothstein in Martin Scorsese's film Casino .
Individual evidence
- ↑ marketwatch.com: Boyd profit falls with Vegas; Echelon project still on hold (English) October 27, 2009
- ↑ Las Vegas Review Journal: Genting goes all-in - plus some pandas - for Asian-themed Las Vegas resort , March 3, 2013
- ↑ http://siegfriedandroy.com/?page_id=131
Web links
- Press information on the closure (English)
- Report of the mirror with pictures and video of the demolition
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