Echelon Place

Future Building

Echelon is Boyd Gaming Corporation’s replacement for the Stardust Resort & Casino. Echelon Place has an estimated cost of $4 billion with construction beginning in 2007 and the opening in 2010. The $4 billion price tag would make Echelon the second-most expensive hospitality industry development ever.

This will be an 87 acre multi-use project with a 140,000 square foot (13,000 m²) casino, 4 hotels providing 5,300 rooms, 25 restaurants and bars, the 650,000 square foot Las Vegas ExpoCenter, and a convention center with 1 million square feet (90,000 m²) of space. The Echelon Resort will be a 3,300 room hotel owned and operated by Boyd. The other hotels are expected to be a Shangri-La Hotel, a Delano Hotel, a Mondrian Hotel, and the Echelon Tower.

History

Boyd Gaming acquires the Budget Suites adjacent to the Stardust site.

Boyd Gaming acquires the land between the Stardust site and the Westward Ho.

Boyd Gaming Corporation announces Echelon on January 4, 2006.

On October 2, 2006 Boyd Gaming acquires 24 acres of land adjacent to the site from Harrah’s Entertainment in exchange for the Barbary Coast Casino. This was the location of the now demolished Westward Ho.

On November 1, 2006 the Stardust officially ceased operations to make room for Echelon Place.

On March 13, 2007 the Stardust was demolished for the future construction of Echelon .