We get a variation on the Lady Luck theme frequently, as we have for four years since the popular place downtown closed and has been threatening to reopen ever since. You can track the progress -- or lack thereof -- in QoDs 10/22/06, 10/2/07, 3/22/08, and 9/9/08. As you can see, there’s been nothing at all to say for nearly two years since the crash of the fall of 2008, but now there seem to be things happening there.
The Lady Luck closed on February 11, 2006, in order, it was announced at the time, to facilitate a year-long remodel. We’ve been waiting for word on exactly that ever since and now, according to a recent -- and necessarily sketchy --article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, some preliminary clean-up work is under way, in anticipation of launching the overhaul.
Plans, reportedly, have been submitted to the Las Vegas Planning Commission. The plans need to be approved by the City Council.
They call for expanding meeting space by 8,500 square feet and adding more than 17,000 square feet of pool-deck space; turning 50 hotel rooms into a spa and fitness center; upgrading the rest of the rooms, 634 in total, along with the casino and retail space; rebuilding the pedestrian bridge that connects the two hotel towers on the third floor; renovating some back-of-the-house facilities; and altering the traffic flow.
There’s been no word on a timetable or financing, but the mayor’s office has said that "the project is moving forward."
We’ll keep all you Lady Luck aficionados posted as developments are unveiled.
