The Nevada Gaming Control Board announced Wednesday that it will hold a special meeting on June 25 to approve licensing for Terrible’s to operate the remaining casino-hotel in Primm and avert a Fourth of July closing.
The meeting is scheduled on the same day as the regular June meeting of the Nevada Gaming Commission, which will then vote to give the final okay for the licensing.
The scheduled special meeting announcement comes one day after the Primm family signed an agreement with Las Vegas-based Terrible’s to operate the one currently open hotel-casino, Primm Valley, and related properties in Primm on the Nevada and California border.
“I would like to spread a little good news for the employees out at Primm,” said Gaming Control Board member George Assad at the beginning of Wednesday’s regulator monthly meeting. “We’re having a special meeting on June 25th thanks to Chairman (Mike) Dreitzer setting that up to approve the new property being transferred over to the Terrible Herbst folks. This will save about 330 jobs. Hopefully, the people in Primm can relax. You’re going to have a job and that’s going to be a good thing for the state of Nevada and for those employees and their families.”
The July 4 closing date was issued by current operator Affinity Gaming and Z Capital when they notified Primm employees, residents and state gaming regulators on May 5th that they intended to close the properties they’ve been operating at Primm for nearly 15 years.
