It would also include suites and villas, VIP salons, and a bar and lounge for high-limit gamblers, building plans indicate.Ĭontact Eli Segall at or 70. Plans have called for the upscale, 2,420-room project to feature restaurants, convention space, spa, wedding chapel, auto showroom and a roughly 2,500-seat theater. He also owns several Golden Nugget casinos, with locations in downtown Las Vegas Laughlin Atlantic City, New Jersey Biloxi, Mississippi and Lake Charles, Louisiana.įertitta purchased a chunk of the Strip last year, too, buying around 6 acres of real estate at the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Harmon Avenue for $270 million in June.Ĭlark County commissioners in October approved his plans to develop a 43-story hotel-casino on the site.įertitta has since torn down some buildings there but hasn’t announced when he would start construction on the proposed resort.

“This acquisition represents a significant opportunity for us to expand our footprint into the Northern Nevada marketplace.”įertitta, 65, oversees a corporate empire that includes dozens of restaurant brands, the NBA’s Houston Rockets, the upscale Post Oak Hotel in Houston and an oceanfront luxury resort in Laguna Beach, California. “We are thrilled to be welcoming the Lake Tahoe property to the Golden Nugget family,” Fertitta, owner and CEO of Fertitta Entertainment, said in a news release Friday. The sale, by Las Vegas-based Paragon Gaming, is expected to close in the next seven to 12 months. The Houston billionaire announced he is acquiring the Hard Rock hotel-casino at Lake Tahoe for an undisclosed price and will transform it into a Golden Nugget-branded property. Tilman Fertitta is expanding the Golden Nugget brand to Northern Nevada. The Hard Rock hotel-casino at Lake Tahoe in Northern Nevada.

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