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US – Legends Bay to become Reno’s first new casino in August

The $120m Legends Bay Casino is set to open in August, becoming the first new casino in Reno since the opening of Silver Legacy in Downtown Reno in 1995.

The casino has been 15 years in the planning but has now been given recommendation for licensing from the Nevada Gaming Control Board. The project is expected to receive final approval from the Nevada Gaming Commission June 23.

Legends Bay coprirà 80,000 piedi quadrati vantando una superficie di gioco di 40,000 piedi quadrati con 660 slot machine, 10 giochi da tavolo e un sito di scommesse sportive gestito da Circa Sports di Derek Stevens.

Legends Bay sarà integrato nel centro commerciale esistente The Outlets at Legends, una destinazione per lo shopping, i ristoranti e l'intrattenimento all'aperto vicino al porto turistico di Sparks.

Developer Garry Goett, of Olympia Companies, said: “Waiting has been an outstanding thing for us because we were supposed to be the anchors with Scheels [sporting goods store]. Instead, everybody else built. The shopping center is filled out and the [adjoining] hotels are hugely successful.”

Il progetto originale del 2007 è stato interrotto durante la recessione e poi nuovamente fallito a causa della pandemia.

Mr Goett added: “We went five years and counting and we started to rethink the whole project. We came up with a more cost-sensitive project. So, where we had a maybe $500m project that went to $350m and then we went down to $120m. That’s where we ended up.”

“We were very careful not to be a Las Vegas casino,” he added. “This is a northern Nevada casino and we used northern Nevada interior designers for the project. I think they’ve done a wonderful job in bringing the contemporary and sophisticated to the casino, at the same time retaining a strong feeling of northern Nevada.”