Las Vegas: Tribal nation’s purchase of shuttered Strip motel site approved

Las Vegas: Tribal nation’s purchase of shuttered Strip motel site approved

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  • Eli Segall , Las Vegas Review-Journal
March 24, 2023 3:52 PM
  • Eli Segall , Las Vegas Review-Journal

A long-shuttered motel site on the Strip is getting a new owner.

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District Judge Gloria Sturman on Thursday approved the sale of the boarded-up former White Sands Motel property, across from the Luxor, to a North Dakota tribal nation for $10.25 million.

The buyer, the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, already owns nearly 22 acres along the south edge of Las Vegas’ famed resort corridor, and the latest purchase lets it fill a real estate doughnut hole of sorts.

The narrow, 1.1-acre parcel is surrounded on three sides by the former Route 91 Harvest festival site, most of which was purchased last year by the tribal group also known as Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation.

Once it completes the newest purchase, MHA Nation will have spent a total of roughly $115 million for real estate along Las Vegas Boulevard.