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A new Wildfire Casino with an updated look and feel is expected to open in February — though the brand’s changes are already visible on a sign hung at the construction site.
The downtown Las Vegas casino-resort will open 35,000 square feet of ballroom and meeting space on Sept. 1.
Work will begin soon on the 35,000-square-foot meetings and convention space for the downtown resort, with the first customers expected in September.
Rebranding resorts and casinos is a practice nearly as old as Las Vegas itself. But there’s more to track now with Bally’s, the Tropicana and The Mirage all undergoing makeovers.
Circa’s casino and the Stadium Swim attraction have been open for eight weeks and the hotel will be ready to open next week with a few surprises.
Plenty of nods to classic Las Vegas will be visible at Circa. But you would be hard-pressed to find one as iconic or as tasty as a 99-cent shrimp cocktail.
Circa owner Derek Stevens joked that because his new downtown resort was expensive to build, he couldn’t afford to put in an arcade.
Derek Stevens still has a few surprises up his sleeve for next year, but for now, progress on the 44-story, 777-room resort is on time for its December 2020 opening.