Sparks, Nev.’s long-awaited Legends Bay On line casino is nice to go. On Wednesday, the $120 million undertaking, which has been 15 years within the making, obtained a suggestion for licensing from the Nevada Gaming Management Board. The undertaking is anticipated to obtain ultimate approval from the Nevada Gaming Fee on June 23.
An artist’s rendering of the $120 million Legends Bay On line casino, which will likely be tagged onto The Retailers at Legends purchasing heart in Sparks, Nev. (Picture: Olympia Cos)
As deliberate, when it opens in August, it is going to be the primary from-the-ground on line casino property within the Reno-Sparks metropolitan space in 17 years. The final was the Silver Legacy in downtown Reno in 1995.
The 80,000 spare-foot growth may have a 40,000 square-foot on line casino ground with 660 slot machines, 10 desk video games, and a sportsbook operated by Derek Stevens’ Circa Sports activities.
Legends Bay will likely be built-in into the present The Retailers at Legends purchasing heart, an open-air purchasing, eating, and leisure vacation spot subsequent to Sparks marina.
Well worth the Wait
Developer Garry Goett of Olympia Corporations instructed the management board the event may have 5 eating institutions, together with a “meals truck corridor.” The property will make use of round 300 staff.
Goett stated he plans to deliver the favored Duke’s Steak Home idea from On line casino Fandango, which Olympia owns and operates in Carson Metropolis.
The Retailers mall attracts 12 million guests a 12 months, making certain footfall into the Legends Bay On line casino, in accordance with Goett.
Ready has been an excellent factor for us as a result of we had been presupposed to be the anchors with Scheels [sporting goods store],” he stated. “As a substitute, everyone else constructed. The purchasing heart is crammed out and the [adjoining] accommodations are massively profitable.”
Goett conceived of the undertaking in 2007 when his firm bought the on line casino’s land. But it surely was shelved in the course of the Nice Recession, then once more in the course of the pandemic. It will definitely broke floor in March 2021.
Full Rethink
Within the interim, the Legends Bay has gone by a whole redesign, whereas Olympia pressed forward with setting up two accommodations, a 104-room Residence Inn by Marriott and a 102-room Hampton Inn & Suites.
We went 5 years and counting and we began to rethink the entire undertaking,” Goett instructed the board. “We got here up with a extra cost-sensitive undertaking. So, the place we had a possibly $500 million undertaking that went to $350 (million) after which we went right down to $120 (million). That’s the place we ended up.”
“We had been very cautious to not be a Las Vegas on line casino,” he added. “It is a northern Nevada on line casino, and we used northern Nevada inside designers for the undertaking. I feel they’ve achieved an exquisite job in bringing the up to date and complicated to the on line casino, on the identical time retaining a powerful feeling of Northern Nevada.”
