LAS VEGAS (KTNV) – A tentative date has been set for the demolition of the Tropicana Las Vegas resort.
The date has yet to be approved, but Bally’s Corporation has requested that the resort’s two hotel towers be demolished on Oct. 9, a company spokesperson confirmed in an email to Channel 13.
Before the demolition, Bally’s and the Oakland Athletics plan to host a memorial event that will include a “spectacular fireworks display by Fireworks by Grucci,” the spokesman said.
The implosion itself is provisionally scheduled for 2:30 a.m.
Demolition work has been underway since the hotel-casino closed in April. In July, a developer asked Clark County for permission to demolish the resort’s two 22-story hotel towers.
If county officials approve, the Tropicana would be the first resort on the Las Vegas Strip since the demolition of the three Riviera hotel towers in 2016.
The demolition of the Riviera ended with the demolition of the last standing hotel tower on August 16, 2016. The site was eventually used to build the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, a $1 billion expansion that opened to the public in June 2021.
Before that, more than a decade had passed since the last implosion of the Gaza Strip. The New Frontier was destroyed on November 13, 2007.
Exactly eight months earlier, on March 13, 2007, hundreds of people gathered to watch the implosion of the Stardust on the site where Resorts World now stands.
Stardust implosion for Web 1
