The 201-room casino and resort has been under construction for nearly 20 months on a 50-acre site near the 215 Beltway and South Durango Drive. “The most important thing is that the service on the day we open is the highest quality possible.”Ĭootey said the delayed opening will not incur additional costs that would require the company to increase the budget beyond $780 million. “We didn’t feel like that gave us enough time to properly train our staff and our team members in the venues and to be able to have the appropriate entry days and then game days,” Fertitta said, describing the days before a casino resort opened. Lorenzo Fertitta, vice chairman of Red Rock Resorts, said “certain areas” of the resort that he described as “critical to the opening” were completed later than expected.įertitta did not say whether the areas were restaurants or parts of the casino floor. Red Rock CFO Steven Cootey said the date was pushed back “to ensure a first-class opening of the property.” The delay was announced at the start of Tuesday’s third-quarter earnings call and came as a surprise to analysts. Red Rock Resorts has pushed back the planned opening of its $780 million Durango Casino and Resort by more than two weeks, saying portions of its southwest Las Vegas property would not be completed by its announced Nov.
