Years after Texas Station was reduced to rubble, a housing tract is being developed on the hotel-casino’s former footprint.
Homebuilding giant Lennar Corp. has started site work for a new project in North Las Vegas called The West End. Located along Rancho Drive at Coran Lane, it will feature a mix of townhomes and freestanding single-family houses.
Marketing materials online did not show home prices yet, and homes had not started taking shape as of last week. Lennar said on social media in February that model homes were coming soon.
Lennar’s project plans show a 373-lot subdivision across nearly 36.5 acres, with a central park area that includes an “adventure trail” and play structure, according to North Las Vegas records.
The housing tract occupies most of Texas Station’s former land, with the balance of the site now home to a newly built shopping center.
A representative for Miami-based Lennar, one of the biggest homebuilders in the country, did not respond to a request for comment.
All told, the project is part of the sprawling Hylo Park development that aims to remake a stretch of the city along Rancho Drive at Lake Mead Boulevard with retail space, athletic facilities, housing and more.
Land purchases
Aaron Lefton, president of acquisitions and leasing for Hylo Park developer Agora Realty & Management, said on Tuesday that the firm wanted to create a walkable community with connectivity to the shopping center and the planned sports hub.
California-based Agora Realty purchased the neighboring former Texas Station and Fiesta Rancho sites for about $58 million combined in 2023. The seller, Station Casinos, had demolished the two hotel-casino properties, both of which had been closed since the onset of the pandemic.
Agora then sold 36.5 acres of the former Texas Station land for $26 million in late 2024, several months after the North Las Vegas Planning Commission approved Lennar’s proposal for the site, records show.
Clark County property records and corporate filings with the Nevada secretary of state and the Securities and Exchange Commission indicate that Agora sold the site to a land-banking entity.
In general, such groups acquire land for homebuilders and then sell them plots when they’re ready for construction.
Big project pushes ahead
Agora broke ground early last year on a roughly 90,000-square-foot retail plaza on an 11-acre portion of Texas Station’s old footprint. The shopping center is slated to include a Cardenas grocery store.
Lefton recently said that construction of the plaza was wrapping up and that most of the tenants had taken possession of their space.
Meanwhile, project plans for the 25-acre former Fiesta Rancho site include a 200,000-square-foot indoor fieldhouse, extended-stay hotel, medical building, and shops and restaurants, the developers said.
The property will also include its existing ice rink, now called Hylo Park Arena, which used to be attached to the Fiesta.
Agora plans to hold a ceremonial groundbreaking for this northern portion of the broader Hylo Park development in August.
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