What Is the Next Big Casino To Open in Las Vegas?

With all the news about the mergers and acquisitions of Caesars and MGM, it got me curious about what the next big casino in Las Vegas is going to be? What say the LVA answer people?

It won't be a Caesars or MGM Resorts property, that's for sure. And Fertitta Entertainment indefinitely tabled its plans for a megaresort on a 36-acre parcel it owns on the Strip at Harmon Avenue.

Meanwhile, Station Casinos hasn't announced which new casino it plans to start working on from its extensive land bank around the valley, though the company has hinted it will probably be Inspirada, across I-15 and a bit south of Southern Highlands in Henderson. That's at least several years away -- if Station pulls the trigger on the project.

Boyd recently opened Cadence Crossing, which takes them out of the running for the time being.

Anthony Marnell III, the original developer of M Resort, is planning a hotel-casino directly across the street from M, but doesn't expect to break ground on it for three to five years as he waits for the population base to grow large enough to compete with M, which he sold to Penn Entertainment in 2010.

So those are all the new casinos that aren't happening in the foreseeable future.

The one that is -- drum roll, please -- isn't a surprise. It's the Hard Rock Las Vegas taking over the Mirage site right at center Strip. This big bad boy will cost somewhere between $4 billion and $5 billion by the time it opens as an entirely new megaresort -- in the next 16-18 months. The latest prediction during Hard Rock's first-quarter earnings call last month was "fourth quarter 2027, which means anytime between October 1 and December 31 of next year.

It's going to be a very big deal.

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Randall Ward Jun-14-2026

Hard Rock

can't wait, brand new and real competition

VegasROX Jun-14-2026

Hardrock- never completed

Will be the most obnoxious view blocking signage on the strip, and that's saying a lot. It will also become a project , that will never be completed, and surpass the length of time it took to complete Fountainbleu. That piece of a guitar, will never be complete, intentionally done that way for whatever reason.

That Don Guy Jun-14-2026

Speaking of Inspirada

Wasn't there something planned for the Inspirada area itself - specifically, just west of Via Inspirada (aka Raiders Way) at the east end of Bicenntennial Parkway? There has to be a reason for the "stoplight to nowhere" there.

O2bnVegas Jun-14-2026

agree with VegasROX

The Hardrock guitar isn't new anymore.  I always liked those really iconic themed hotel/casino fronts; the volcano, pirate ship, the stern-faced old sultan 'guarding' the Dunes.  Pleasantly surprising at first.  I guess we still have the Eiffel Tower and hot air balloon at Paris, the Excaliber castles, the clowns at Circus Circus, the Luxor by its shape.   Venetian has the outdoor gondola.  But the recently built places aren't going with the memorable naming and style of facade.

Candy

IdahoPat Jun-16-2026

LOL

Yeah, the Hard Rock is gonna suffer the same fate as Fontainebleau. Pour me another, bartender ...

Lucky Jun-18-2026

Hard Rock

One thing about Hard Rock, they know how to market and they know how to compete.  They will have better games and less expensive food.  They will force the other resorts to do the same.  If the HR is not charging bulls**t fees, free parking, reasonable valet, they will get the traffic.  Bet they start out with 3/2 BJ, looser slots and better VP.  Their other casinos in FL do really well with the competition they have in Broward county.  The Caesars at the race track had to do that to compete with them.  The other casinos in Broward are like local casinos in Vegas.

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