If Boyd Gaming has designs on expanding its Las Vegas footprint, CEO Keith Smith is keeping it quiet.
“Are you looking for me to slip up and give you a scoop?” Smith said in an interview last week following the company’s third-quarter earnings call. “When we have something to talk about, I’ll tell you.”
Boyd’s Southern Nevada holdings cover nine casinos, including three downtown, and properties in the valley’s populated areas, including the eastside, near the Strip, North Las Vegas and Summerlin. The company’s Eastside Cannery casino remains closed.
“There are always opportunities and we are always looking for ways to expand,” Smith said. “We obviously have great competence in Las Vegas.”
The approach is different for Red Rock Resorts. The company, Boyd’s largest competitor in the neighborhood casino market, has visions of doubling its footprint in the Las Vegas Valley by 2030. Red Rock, the corporate parent of operator Station Casinos, owns 630 acres of developable land across Southern Nevada.
For now, the under-construction $750 million Durango Station in southwestern Las Vegas, near the 215 Beltway, is the focus. It’s scheduled to open late next year.
