Station Casinos is also celebrating its 40th anniversary throughout July. Station Casinos started with 90 team members and now has more than 12,000, owns 19 gaming venues and, with the recent announcement to acquire The Palms, will soon have 20. Its success led to the development of additional entertainment destinations throughout Las Vegas. In 1993, Fertitta retired and Frank III assumed leadership of the company.įrank III saw how Las Vegas was growing and believed the Palace Station business model could be successfully replicated, and in 1994, opened Boulder Station.

More than 26,000 entries were received in three weeks and a Las Vegan named Claire Jarvis won first place with her suggestion of “Palace Station.”įertitta’s sons, Frank III and Lorenzo, worked at the property and learned the gaming business from their father. Fertitta felt that it was important for his guests to have a say in the property’s evolution, so he created a “Name the Casino” promotion. Over the years, Fertitta added more entertainment amenities and the desire for a more fitting name. One year later, the first of more than a dozen expansions took place with the arrival of a bingo room and an appropriate name change to the “Bingo Palace.” opened a 5,000-square-foot facility called The Casino attached to the Mini Price Motor Inn on Sahara Avenue, just west of the Strip, featuring 100 slot machines, a few table games and a snack bar. with Fireworks by Grucci and a synchronized soundtrack on 96.3 KKLZ. The fireworks show at Palace Station hotel-casino will be in lieu of the company's traditional 4th of July fireworks shows which are usually at Red Rock Resort and Green Valley Ranch Resort. Station Casinos will be celebrating 40 years with a fireworks show on Friday.

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