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  • Boyd Sets Implosion Date for Las Vegas’ Eastside Cannery – Casino.org

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    Posted on: February 17, 2026, 10:28h. 

    Last updated on: February 17, 2026, 10:28h.

    • Boyd Gaming scheduled the 16-story hotel tower’s implosion for March 5, 2026
    • No public viewing areas will be designated
    • Due to low demand, Boyd never reopened the property following the 2020 pandemic shutdown

    Las Vegas’ long line of casino resort implosions will get longer on March 5, 2026. That’s when the Eastside Cannery’s hotel tower gets dynamited to dust at 2 a.m.

    When the $250 million Eastside Cannery opened in August 2008, it was the first new hotel-casino on Boulder Highway since Boulder Station opened in 1994. (Image: Shutterstock)

    Construction workers have demolished sections of the Boulder Strip property since October 2025, but its hotel tower, gutted and stripped of windows, is too tall (16 stories) to come down any other way. The Eastside Cannery has remained closed since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak.

    The implosion will not be a public event, however, and no public viewing areas will be designated.

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    The Eastside Cannery opened on August 28, 2008 on Las Vegas’ Boulder Strip, a less desirable tourism corridor patronized almost entirely by locals. It was a replacement for the aging Nevada Palace.

    The casino hotel included 64,876 square feet of gaming space occupied by over 2,000 slots, 26 table games, a poker room, keno, and a race and sports book. It also had an 18-story hotel tower with 307 rooms, 20,000 square feet of meeting and ballroom space, a private club on the 16th floor, three restaurants, and a lounge.

    In December 2016, Boyd paid Cannery Casino Resorts, co-founded by Bill Wortman and Bill Paulos, $230 million for the operating rights to the Eastside Cannery and the original Cannery Casino and Hotel in North Las Vegas.

    However, Cannery Casino Resorts retained ownership of the land on which the Eastside Cannery sat.

    In February 2025, Boyd purchased those 30 acres for $45 million from Cannery Casino Resorts, to whom Boyd had been already been paying millions in rent every year.

    When then-Gov. Steve Sisolak allowed Nevada’s casinos to reopen following the COVID-19 shutdown in June 2020, Boyd reopened the Cannery but not the Eastside Cannery, instead directing customers to visit its nearby other property, Sam’s Town.

    Boyd is basically following the lead of its most direct rival, Red Rock Resorts, with whom it is locked in a turf war over Las Vegas’ neighborhood gamblers.

    In July 2022, Red Rock announced the permanent closures of Fiesta Rancho and Texas Station in North Las Vegas, and Fiesta Henderson in Henderson. Those venues were ultimately demolished and Red Rock sold the real estate to nongaming entities. (The North Las Vegas properties are becoming a mixed-use retail and residential development called Hylo Park. The Fiesta Henderson was supposed to become an indoor sports complex, but those plans fell through and now the city of Henderson is soliciting new proposals.)

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  • Mecklenburg’s last dairy farm sells, will become residential neighborhood

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    The remaining 200 acres of a dairy farm in Huntersville will be turned into a residential community.

    The Westmoreland Dairy Farm, which began operations in the early 1900s, was sold to developer Shea Homes in August for more than $24.6 million, according to Mecklenburg County records. Foundry Commercial assisted in the sale and announced it in a Friday news release.

    Records indicate three separate sales to Shea Homes on Aug. 26. It’s unclear when operations will cease on the farm. Comment requests to Foundry and the farm’s Facebook page weren’t immediately answered. Plans and details for the site are still being finalized. But according to the release, Shea intends to build a residential neighborhood with “higher-end single-family homes” with some valued at more than $1 million.

    The farm off of Westmoreland Road and Sam Furr Road isn’t a stranger to large size redevelopment plans.

    A massive $800 million mixed-used community called Lagoona Bay Beach Club was planned for the site in 2023. The development went through several iterations, one of which included a beach resort, recreational lagoon and more than 600 homes.

    But residents expressed concern over the size of the development and traffic congestion. So did the Huntersville Planning Board, which said the plan would turn Sam Furr Road “from a rural corridor into a fully intensified one.”

    The plan was later withdrawn.

    The Westmoreland sale is illustrative of growing urban encroachment on farmland in Mecklenburg County and North Carolina as the population continues to exponentially grow.

    In 1995, Huntersville’s population was about 5,000 people. As of last year, that town’s population had hit more than 67,000 people, according to census data.

    About Westmoreland Farm

    According to Foundry, Westmoreland is the last operational dairy farm in Mecklenburg County. It goes by several names, including Westmoreland & Sons Farm.

    Thomas Westmoreland Jr., who was not involved in the farm’s operations, confirmed the sale. He said the farm has been in the family since 1913.

    But with rising farm costs and a loss of property due to development, operations weren’t sustainable.

    In a 2024 Spectrum News story, Chris Westmoreland said the farm started as a cotton farm and transitioned to dairy cattle in the 1950s. In 2011, the farm switch to corn, soybeans, wheat, beef cattle and hay.

    Chris Westmoreland at the time said the farm had already lost 500 acres due to development.

    Westmoreland is the latest farm to sell in Huntersville.

    In May, the Wallace Farm was sold to Denali, a Russellville, Arkansas-based organic recycling company. Denali planned to take over the operations of the farm’s two facilities — the 75-acre facility in Huntersville and a 162-acre site in Advance, near Greensboro and Winston-Salem. The Wallace Farm had been owned by the Wallace family since 1863.

    This story was originally published October 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM.

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