Eastside Cannery is being wiped out.
Crews have been demolishing the hotel-casino property on Boulder Highway after the Clark County Building Department issued a $7.5 million commercial demolition permit for the site in October.
As seen on Monday, there were large piles of rubble on the property. The hotel tower itself was still standing but had been cut out and windows peeled, and passersby could see through the building.
David Strow, a spokesman for owner Boyd Gaming Corp., said Monday he had nothing to share at this time about the demolition of the hotel tower.
He also said the company still intends to sell the property for residential use.
The Eastside Cannery—on Boulder Highway at Harmon Avenue, in the eastern Las Vegas Valley—featured over 300 hotel rooms, a 64,000-square-foot casino, several bars and restaurants, a 250-seat lounge, and 20,000 square feet of meeting and ballroom space.
Boyd acquired the Cannery hotel casino in North Las Vegas and the Eastside Cannery for about $230 million combined in 2016.
In March 2020, then-Gov. Steve Sisolak ordered casinos and other businesses in Nevada to close to help limit the outbreak of the coronavirus. Casinos were allowed to reopen in June 2020, but the Eastside Cannery remained closed.
Boyd bought the land under the Eastside Cannery last February for $45 million, property records show. It had leased the approximately 29.5 hectare footprint.
Boyd then declined to comment on the land purchase.
Strow said in October that there was “not enough market demand to reopen” the Eastside Cannery and that the company was finalizing plans to demolish it.
He also said Boyd was in discussions to sell the property for residential use.
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