I keep seeing posts on various message boards wondering if any work is actually being done on the old Lady Luck (now slated to be the "Downtown Grand" sometime late next year). I drive by the site every day, and have seen activity there all year, but not what most visitors would see - mainly trucks arriving in the morning and being parked in a fenced-off area.
On Monday, I drove by and noticed they had started tearing down the front wall. In addition, there's no old "Lady Luck" signage visible at the top of the tower now. I took these pictures in the late afternoon earlier today - before then, there were workers up on lifts ripping down the walls. The interior appears to be completely gutted - that's what they must have been doing over the summer.
Just thought people may be interested to know something is actually going on. For years, they would only ramp up activity whenever they applied for an extension of their permits (to make it look busy when the city/county officials would come by), but this time it looks as if the work has begun in earnest.
On Monday, I drove by and noticed they had started tearing down the front wall. In addition, there's no old "Lady Luck" signage visible at the top of the tower now. I took these pictures in the late afternoon earlier today - before then, there were workers up on lifts ripping down the walls. The interior appears to be completely gutted - that's what they must have been doing over the summer.
Just thought people may be interested to know something is actually going on. For years, they would only ramp up activity whenever they applied for an extension of their permits (to make it look busy when the city/county officials would come by), but this time it looks as if the work has begun in earnest.
