The Tropicana is dead; long live the Tropicana. The storied hotel-casino closes its doors April 2, just two days shy of its 67th birthday, to make way for a Major League Baseball stadium and a new Bally’s resort. Over the next year, the land the Tropicana now occupies will be cleared, with the intent that the organization currently known as the Oakland A’s will claim the empty lot in April 2025 and begin to build.

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The Tropicana is survived by Caesars Palace, Circus Circus, the Flamingo and the steadily dwindling number of pre-1970 Las Vegas Strip resorts that haven’t been imploded, rebranded or remodeled to the point of being unrecognizable.