That plan was also dropped when the economy tanked.
While Bill’s Gambling Hall was open for business until yesterday, the plan was always to transform it into something more luxurious. Boyd Gaming will wrap the building to disguise its unfinished state sometime in 2013.īoyd Gaming was not the only one that got stuck with unwanted property from this trade.
Echelon now sits mothballed and there are no plans to restart construction. That plan was abruptly canceled early in the construction phase when the Las Vegas real estate crash occurred. This land was to be used for the Echelon, Boyd Gaming’s first attempt at a luxury Las Vegas Strip hotel. Harrah’s was eventually rebranded Caesars Entertainment.īarbary Coast was acquired by Caesars Entertainment in 2007 in a land swap that gave former owner Boyd Gaming 24 acres of land adjacent to the former Stardust property. It was named Bill’s Gambling Hall in the interim after the company’s founder, Bill Harrah. It was all meant to be a temporary casino waiting for the next big plan by Harrah’s Entertainment.
The property, once known as Barbary Coast, was never really meant to have existed in its current form. As announced in December, Bill’s Gambling Hall closed down Monday.
