Station Casinos has announced a comprehensive multimillion-dollar investment strategy across its Southern Nevada portfolio as the company prepares for its 50th anniversary on July 1. The initiative includes significant expansions at its newest resort and large-scale renovations at several established locations throughout the Las Vegas Valley.
The most substantial portion of the capital investment is directed toward Durango Casino and Resort in southwest Las Vegas. The company recently began a second phase of development at the property with a price tag of 385 million dollars. This project follows the December completion of a new high-limit slot room and a 2,000-space parking garage. Planned additions at the resort include a 36-lane bowling facility, luxury movie theaters, and approximately 400 new slot machines. New restaurant concepts and entertainment venues are also scheduled to open as part of the 18-month construction cycle.
Renovation efforts are also focused on Green Valley Ranch in Henderson. Following the recent update of 162 rooms and 37 suites, Station Casinos plans to fully renovate nearly 300 additional rooms in the East Tower during 2026. The property will also see upgrades to its meeting and convention facilities, the South Rotunda Lobby, and the Regal movie theaters. A new frozen custard shop is expected to open in the food court early this year.
Red Rock Resort is also slated for upgrades, specifically within its dining division. The Summerlin property will introduce several new food outlets in early 2026, including the return of a popular hospitality restaurant and the addition of a prominent donut shop and local pizza brand to its food hall.
Furthermore, Sunset Station is undergoing a property-wide refresh valued at 53 million dollars. Key projects at this location include the debut of a country-themed entertainment venue and the conversion of an existing lounge into a casino bar. At Palace Station, the company’s original property, a new 6,500-square-foot Korean barbecue restaurant is scheduled to open this spring.
Station Casinos is also expanding its tavern brand, with the fourth Seventy Six Tavern opening in Henderson this month. Additional tavern conversions are planned for early 2026. The company traces its origins to 1976 when it opened a small off-Strip venue known as The Casino. Executives stated that all existing amenities at the various properties will remain open to the public during the construction phases.
Station Casinos has confirmed that the Green Valley Ranch poker room in Henderson, Nevada, will reopen later this year following a major renovation. The poker room, closed since 2020 amid the pandemic, is part of a broader $200 million upgrade across the resort. The resort, located about 15 minutes from the Las Vegas Strip, is over two decades old, and it is undergoing refreshes to its rooms, suites and event spaces.
When it reopens, Green Valley Ranch poker room will feature 16 tables and new chairs in its original spot next to the sportsbook. The renovated space will be almost double the size of the poker room before it closed. The facility is expected to operate around the clock, making it the only 24/7 poker room in Henderson.
Although the exact reopening date has not been set, Station Casinos has indicated the Green Valley Ranch launch will occur in late 2025. As part of the reintroduction, the casino plans to host a tournament and run promotional giveaways to attract players back.
Reports suggest that the poker room will focus largely on low-stakes games, matching the style of play that was common before the facility’s shutdown. The layout and features are designed to appeal to a steady stream of regulars and casual players alike. Station Casinos already runs three other poker rooms in the Las Vegas area. These are located at Boulder Station to the east of the Strip, Red Rock Resort on the west side, and Santa Fe Station in the city’s northwest sector.
The return of Green Valley Ranch poker room marks a significant step in Station Casinos restoration of live poker offerings. With 24/7 service, expanded capacity, and a refreshed layout, the venue is being positioned to regain a central role in Henderson’s gaming scene.
Las Vegas is getting one of its poker rooms back. Station Casinos announced Monday that live poker will return to the Green Valley Ranch in Henderson, a 15-minute drive from the Strip.
Green Valley Ranch will soon become only the first Las Vegas poker room closed during the pandemic to reopen since 2021. (Image: phgmeetings.com)
The poker room, which the locals casino closed during COVID, will reopen by December, with 16 tables instead of the 22 (according to PokerAtlas.com) that it had pre-pandemic.
Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the room will deal fixed-limit hold’em, no-limit hold’em, pot-limit Omaha, and Omaha hi/lo in cash games and tournaments.
Knowing When to Fold ‘Em
Green Valley Ranch’s poker room will be only the 19th in a town that had more than 60 in the early-aughts. (It would have been the 20th, but the Poker Palace Casino will close on October 1. And its new owners, Truckee Gaming LLC, are planning to reopen it without poker.)
Around 40 Las Vegas poker rooms have closed since the poker boom started going bust around 2012. After COVID, Green Valley Ranch’s poker room, located steps from its sportsbook, was repurposed as a smoke-free slot machine area.
Poker rooms don’t typically return once they’re converted to slot areas. That’s because, per square foot, slots generate much more revenue for casinos. (Poker provides no edge to the house. Casinos don’t directly benefit from player losses and, instead, earn rake, a small percentage taken from each pot in cash games, or tournament fees.)
As Stations admitted in a press release, however, it was customer demand that was responsible.
“We took our guests’ feedback loud and clear and are pleased to announce the return of poker, among the many exciting upgrades happening at the property,” said Ken Janssen, Green Valley Ranch’s GM and VP. (Green Valley Ranch is in the midst of a $200 million remodel.)
Here are all the poker rooms in the Las Vegas area that will be left standing after the Poker Palace closes…
Aria
Bellagio
Boulder Station
Caesars Palace
Golden Nugget
Horseshoe
Mandalay Bay
MGM Grand
Orleans
Planet Hollywood
Red Rock
Resorts World
Santa Fe Station
Skyline
South Point
Venetian
Westgate
Wyn
Station Casinos operates three of them: at Boulder Station, Red Rock and Sante Fe Station.
DENVER — Police in Denver are investigating a shooting in the city’s Green Valley Ranch neighborhood that left one person dead early Saturday morning.
It happened in the 18000 block of E. 50th Place.
Police said officers arrived and located one victim who sustained a gunshot wound.
The victim, who has not been identified, was transported to the hospital, where they were later pronounced deceased.
No arrests have been made, and suspect information was not available.
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Station Casinos has announced a major renovation project at Green Valley Ranch, continuing its strategy of reinvesting in its properties across the Las Vegas Valley. The company confirmed that nearly 500 hotel rooms and suites at the resort will undergo a full redesign, with the project expected to be completed in phases through next year.
Ken Janssen, vice president and general manager of Green Valley Ranch, said the goal of the project is to update the resort’s accommodations with modern design and upgraded features. He noted that the rooms and suites will be “completely reimagined” to align with the overall upscale positioning of the Henderson property.
The redesign, developed in collaboration with Avenue Interior Design, will include changes aimed at creating what Station Casinos describes as a more refined and contemporary atmosphere for guests. Work on the West Tower is scheduled to be finished this fall, with the remainder of the hotel upgrades expected to follow in 2026.
In addition to the room renovations, Station Casinos is also investing in convention space improvements as part of the same initiative. The total cost of the project is estimated at around $200 million. Company officials indicated that further updates to Green Valley Ranch will be announced in the months ahead, though no details were provided.
The upcoming changes mark the latest in a series of property upgrades for Station Casinos, which has recently completed similar work at other resorts in its portfolio. For Green Valley Ranch, the renovation underscores its role as one of the company’s flagship destinations, aiming to maintain its competitiveness in a crowded market of Las Vegas luxury and locals-focused resorts.
Homeowners associations’ foreclosure filings on thousands of Coloradans’ houses over unpaid fines and fees have spurred fresh attempts by lawmakers to better regulate HOAs and metropolitan districts with the hope of preventing more people from losing their homes.
Lawmakers have introduced several reform bills that would restrict foreclosures from delinquent fees and require HOAs and metro districts to adopt written policies, enhance notifications to homeowners and add licensing requirements for professional managers. The legislation would also set regulations on how much homeowners can be charged. HOAs would be required to work with homeowners before beginning any foreclosure proceedings.
“As more Coloradans find themselves living in HOAs and metro districts, it is more important than ever that homeowners be protected from losing the largest asset they will ever invest in through unnecessary foreclosure,” said Rep. Iman Jodeh, an Aurora Democrat who is sponsoring two bills.
Homeowners associations in Colorado legally have the power to place liens on residents’ homes that supersede even those of the banks that hold their mortgages. An HOA can then sell a property to collect the money a resident owes — and the owner still would be left with mortgage debt and none of the equity they had built.
About half of Colorado residents live in communities overseen by an HOA.
The associations’ power drew more scrutiny in 2022 following media reports, including by The Denver Post, about the Master Homeowners Association for Green Valley Ranch in far-northeast Denver. That HOA filed nearly half of all HOA foreclosures in Denver the prior year.
Neighborhood residents who are Black, Asian or Latino said they sometimes weren’t notified of the fines or would continue to accrue new fees and interest even after resolving the violations. In some cases, residents didn’t even know their homes had been placed in foreclosure proceedings until someone showed up at their door and said they now owned the home.
The legislature passed a law in 2022 to protect homeowners from accumulating HOA fines and fees that they may not be aware of by requiring HOAs to provide written notice to residents, in their preferred language, about any violations. It also capped the fees HOAs could assess.
“We want to make sure people stay housed in Colorado”
But lawmakers say there is much more to be done for communities across metro Denver to limit HOA-driven foreclosures and protect homeowners from predatory or mismanaged companies.
“We’re fighting for homeowners,” said Rep. Naquetta Ricks, an Aurora Democrat, adding that this was especially important amid the state’s ongoing housing crisis. “We want to make sure people stay housed in Colorado.”
A statewide committee, the HOA Homeowners’ Rights Task Force, was charged with studying issues related to metro districts and HOAs, and its members recommended multiple areas of focus for the 2024 session. Lawmakers have incorporated at least two recommendations into new bills — creating an alternative dispute resolution process and addressing licensure of community association managers.
The task force is expected to release a final report by April 15.
The new bills introduced so far during the 2024 session include:
HB24-1267, which would require metro districts that conduct covenant enforcement like HOAs to adopt written policies on fines and fees and on governing disputes. It also would prevent the metro district from foreclosing on any lien because of delinquent fees.
HB24-1158, which would require changes to HOA notifications to owners on delinquent accounts and before lien foreclosures, and it would establish a minimum bid.
HB24-1337, which would limit a homeowner’s reimbursement of collection costs and attorney fees to 50% and prohibit an HOA from foreclosing on a lien until it has tried to serve an owner with a civil action within 180 days or obtained a personal judgement in a civil action. It also would prohibit the purchaser of a home in foreclosure from selling for 180 days, with the former owner having first priority of buying the home again.
HB24-1078, which would reestablish license requirements for HOA community association managers (a program that expired in July 2018).
So far, just two bills have been considered by committees. HB-1267 passed 10-0 in a House committee Wednesday, and no one spoke in opposition to the bill. Jodeh said she worked with metro districts when crafting the legislation.
HB-1078, the licensure bill, passed 8-3 in a House committee Feb. 14, eliciting support from homeowners who had faced HOA foreclosures and opposition from community management associations.
Vicki Souder, left, and Linda Wilson protest against foreclosures in front of the Master Homeowners Association for Green Valley Ranch offices on Friday, April 1, 2022. The HOA filed 50 foreclosures in 2021, nearly half the total of all HOA-initiated foreclosures in Denver that year. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
Arvada Democratic Rep. Brianna Titone, a former HOA president, is one of the sponsors of the bill. The legislature passed a similar bill in 2019, but Gov. Jared Polis vetoed it. At the time, Polis’ office said he was concerned about costs to get licensed that would then be passed to consumers, even though a 2017 report from the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies recommended an extension, and a 2021 report also recommended regulation.
Titone said the new licensing bill would “make sure that people are educated about the law and make sure that no felons are getting involved in having full access to communities’ money.”
The bill would also ensure managers know how to do their jobs, Titone added, so that they don’t have to hire attorneys to help, costing residents even more money. And it would require companies to disclose relationships that include identifying whom they’re providing kickbacks to, she said.
The requirements would apply only to professional management companies, not employees directly hired by HOA boards.
“I’ve come here with licensing in 2019. I’ve come with licensing in 2022. And I’ve come with licensing today,” Titone said at the committee hearing, and “nobody has ever suggested an alternative. … They just say no. … You should ask yourself why they don’t want this. It’s because because they’re making a lot of money off of the backs of the people they work for and they’re hired by.”
Licensing bill draws opposition
Despite the bill’s similarity to the 2022 bill Titone worked on with Colorado’s Division of Real Estate, Deputy Director Eric Turner testified against the bill at the hearing, calling it “well-intentioned.” He said it “does not address the various issues about living in an HOA, imposes barriers to entry into the profession and increases costs for homeowners.”
John Kreger, who testified for Associa, the largest community management association in the country, jokingly said that “after the unflattering characterizations of our industry today, I feel compelled to assure the committee that on behalf of Associa and the hundreds of Coloradans we employ, we are not crooks or idiots.”
Kreger and other community association managers argued the bill would not be effective at protecting consumers but instead would just raise costs. Kreger said there wasn’t enough data to show a widespread problem, and any theft of funds or misuse should be handled within the criminal justice system.
Homeowners and nonprofit foreclosure attorneys have attended committee hearings to describe horror stories about themselves or their clients losing their homes over fines and fees from HOAs and metro districts, even if they’d never missed a mortgage payment.
Monica Villela, who lived in a Green Valley Ranch home with her family for 19 years, choked back tears at Wednesday’s hearing. She told lawmakers that during the COVID-19 pandemic, it became difficult to keep up with maintenance and HOA fees that ballooned.
Her family had never missed a mortgage payment and had never even refinanced their home, she said, but they didn’t have the money to pay the $8,000 in fees they owed or for an attorney to fight them.
They lost their home, just as her son would have started college.
“We no longer have that option,” she said. “Our family has honestly been deeply affected. It really hurts seeing my kids being depressed by this horrible situation. We have been hurt.”
She urged lawmakers to pass reforms “to keep families in their homes all across Colorado so we can keep our most holy possession: our homes.”
While a majority of the HOA and metro district legislation introduced at the Colorado statehouse this year centers around protecting homeowners, at least two bills aim to make processes easier on HOAs: HB24-1233 would reduce some of the requirements placed on HOAs when collecting delinquent payments, while HB24-1091 would allow HOAs to set standards for (though not prohibit) the use of fire-hardened building materials for fencing.
Polis’ office declined to comment on the specifics of pending HOA bills or to discuss the HOA task force’s recommendations. Spokesperson Shelby Weiman issued a statement that said his office would monitor the bills’ progress, adding that Polis commends lawmakers’ efforts to provide more flexibility for homeowners.
“Governor Polis believes that burdensome HOA policies shouldn’t be so restrictive that they reduce fire safety, drain individuals and families of their finances, or force people from a home they love over something like untrimmed grass,” she wrote.
