“Relative to moving back the day, the reality is you try to predict when a lot of these areas are going to be handed over, and as of right now, when we started to look at the calendar, certain areas that are critical to the opening were not turned over in the time we originally anticipated, which in turn we didn’t feel gave us enough time to properly train our staff and our team members in-venue to be able to have the appropriate load-in days and play days,” Fertitta said.

In response to an investor’s question, Red Rock Resorts board Director Lorenzo Fertitta said because most of Durango’s customers would be locals that visit regularly and not tourists who might only be there once, the company decided they wanted the property to be “at the highest quality it can be” when it opened. 5 in order to ensure a first-class opening of the resort,” Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Stephen Cootey said in prepared remarks during the call. “We continue to prepare for our scheduled opening of our Durango resort, which we’ve now moved to Dec. That’s especially important as most of them will be Las Vegas Valley residents whom they want to return, they said. 20, but executives said some areas of the property weren’t ready in time to properly train staff members to provide the level of service it wanted to for guests. The company previously planned to open the casino-resort located in southwest Las Vegas on Nov. 5, the company said Tuesday in its third-quarter earnings call.

(Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Rock Resorts is delaying the opening of its new Durango property to Dec. Construction work on Station Casinos' Durango resort project in the southwest valley, on Monday, March 27, 2023, in Las Vegas.

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