{"id":608,"date":"2008-08-27T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/8\/27\/Durango-Station-slightly-downsized"},"modified":"2021-08-15T07:11:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T15:11:10","slug":"durango-station-slightly-downsized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/durango-station-slightly-downsized\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango Station, slightly downsized"},"content":{"rendered":"

Station Casinos<\/strong> has filed its latest set of plans for Durango Station<\/strong> and it looks like they’ve pulled back a bit, although you can judge for yourself. Hotel inventory has been reduced from 1,040 rooms, then 1,000, to 726; the smaller of the two towers has been scaled back an additional 10 feet in height.<\/p>\n

Bingo players will be displeased, as a bingo room has been scrapped; ditto a bowling alley. Two fewer reasons to go there, IMO.<\/p>\n

Rather than wait, though, Station will go ahead straightaway with the second of two parking garages. Even with 4,048 covered spaces, Station is also budgeting for over 2,100 surface-parking spaces, causing Clark County planners some minor qualms over the oceans of asphalt surrounding Durango Station and the pedestrian hazard they could represent.<\/p>\n

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Joe Hasson, Aliante Station GM<\/em><\/p>\n

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Carol Thompson, Aliante’s assistant GM<\/em><\/p>\n

On the executive front<\/strong>, Station has selected the general manager and assistant GM for Aliante Station<\/strong>. They are, respectively, Joe Hasson<\/strong> and Carol Thompson<\/strong>. The former boss of Harrah’s New Orleans<\/strong>, Hasson — who Casino Executive<\/em> Magazine once described as “whippet-thin” (and who, if memory serves, is a marathon runner), comes to Aliante from a lengthy tenure at Green Valley Ranch<\/strong>. If he looks familiar, it’s because he was a regular on the Discovery Channel’s American Casino<\/em>, filmed at GVR. Thompson, who is active in local philanthropy, honed her managerial school at some of Station’s “farm team” properties, such as Barley’s<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The only question remaining is this: If Aliante Station cost $675 million, why was Cannery Casino Resorts<\/strong> able to build Eastside Cannery<\/strong> for $425 million less<\/a>? Yes, Aliante has a concert hall and a 16-screen cineplex. But ECan has 105 more hotel rooms, more meeting space and an equal number of restaurants. (It also boasts a spa and a bingo room, items not listed among Aliante’s amenities.)<\/p>\n

ECan also makes a bolder, striking architectural statement, the jagged parapet of its hotel tower serrating the sky. Aliante’s outward style might be described as Office Park Chic.<\/p>\n

Station just doesn’t seem to be getting nearly as much bang for its buck. How come?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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