Lady Luck clear to start remodeling

The project had been on hold since earlier this month, when Mayor Oscar Goodman voiced concerns about a pedestrian bridge across Third Street that obscures the view from Fremont Street of the under-construction Mob Museum.

He said Wednesday that, ideally, the connection between the Lady Luck’s towers should be moved underground but accepted that it would be prohibitively expensive to do so.

Instead, plans call for stripping the bridge down to its bare elements and installing glass to make it as see-though as can be.

"Under the totality of the circumstances, it’s about as good as it’s going to get," Goodman said. "I don’t want to hold the project up."

The Lady Luck closed in 2006.

Plans call for adding 8,500 square feet of meeting space and a pool and deck area measuring 17,250 square feet on top of the casino building on Ogden Avenue and Third Street.

Fifty hotel rooms will be replaced with a spa, fitness rooms, bathrooms, meeting space and corridors.

The remaining 634 rooms and the casino will be updated, and there will be a new central plant, a new loading dock and changes to improve parking and traffic flow.

Work is expected to start later this year with a scheduled opening sometime in 2012.

Contact reporter Alan Choate at achoate@reviewjournal.com or 702-229-6435.