Demolition crews imploded the Eastside Cannery Hotel-Casino Thursday morning, which closed during the COVID-19 pandemic and never reopened. (KVU)
A Vegas hotel-casino was demolished Thursday morning after the establishment closed during the COVID-19 pandemic and never reopened.
Eastside Cannery Hotel-Casino opened on the Boulder Strip in 2008, replacing the older Nevada Palace casino. Catering more to locals than tourists, it offered price-oriented gaming, dining and lodging away from the busy Las Vegas Strip.
The nearby Longhorn Casino hosted a demolition party to give guests a front-row seat to the implosion, selling parking spaces for $25 and rooms for $250. FOX5 Las Vegas reported.
Las Vegas locals and people from across the country showed up at 2 a.m. to bid an explosive farewell to the building.
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“I am from San Diegoand this is one of my favorite casinos,” Gus Biner told FOX5. “I’ve just never seen a building collapse live. You always see it on the news, but never live.”
“I want to see it, I want to feel it,” Mark Carson told the outlet. ‘I’m a retired carpenter. I’ve spent my entire career building it. This will be my first time seeing it in real life, take them down.”
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The Cannery closed in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic closures in Nevada.
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Boyd Gaming, which acquired the hotel-casino in 2016 as part of its purchase of Cannery Casino Resorts, said it remained closed after most other businesses shuttered. casinos reopened due to insufficient market demand after more than five years of closure.
