Shortly after dawn Friday at Durango, a massive steel truss was hoisted into place in the $385 million expansion project at Station Casinos’ newest and fastest-growing resort.
Suffolk Construction Co., the general contractor, raised the largest piece of structural steel for the project at the southwest Las Vegas Valley hotel-casino, located on Durango Drive just south of the 215 Beltway.
Weighing approximately 180,000 pounds and stretching nearly 140 feet long and 20 feet tall, the colossal truss required a crane weighing roughly 650,000 pounds to perform the lift, with an additional helper crane to support.
Durango, which cost $780 million to build, opened in December 2023. It completed a $120 million expansion in December 2025 and started construction on its second expansion in January.
The project, which was expected to take approximately 18 months, is near the midway point.
“Our Durango property continued to perform exceptionally well despite ongoing construction impacts and has firmly established itself as a meaningful growth driver within the Las Vegas locals market,” Scott Kreeger, president of Station parent Red Rock Resorts, said in August during an earnings call.
He also said that the latest expansion remained on schedule to open in the second half of 2027.
The project will add more than 275,000 square feet to the north side of the property, with 400 additional slot machines on an expanded casino floor, a 36-lane bowling facility and luxury movie theaters.
New dining and entertainment venues will include the Moonshine Flats country-western bar, a two-story, 29,000-square-foot venue.
The first expansion added more than 25,000 square feet of casino space and 230 slot machines, 120 of them in the new high-limit slot area, as well as a new bar.
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