{"id":324999,"date":"2024-07-11T14:32:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=324999"},"modified":"2024-07-11T14:38:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:38:49","slug":"implosion-permit-filed-for-tropicana-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/implosion-permit-filed-for-tropicana-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Bally’s Files Implosion Permit Application to Drop Trop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bally\u2019s Corporation, which closed the Tropicana Las Vegas last April and has slowly been demolishing it since, filed an application to implode the casino resort\u2019s two 22-story towers on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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One of the Tropicana’s two main towers stands gutted down to its concrete and steel on July 6. (Image: YouTube\/@AmericaJR)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The permit application, filed with Clark County, requests the implosion of the vintage Las Vegas Strip resort\u2019s Tropicana Club and Paradise towers in \u201ca single explosive event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unnamed demolition companies would begin setting up by Sept. 30 at the earliest, and complete the blast before Oct. 8, according to the permit application, which values the cost of the implosion contract at $1.2 million.<\/p>\n

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This implosion permit application was filed by Bally’s with Clark County on Thursday. (Image: X\/Twitter\/@seventensuited)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So When Will the Trop Drop?<\/h2>\n

Representative of the Bally\u2019s Corporation, the operator of the 1950s relic, are keeping mum on all specifics. No doubt, they will try to hide the implosion date from the public, and conduct it in the wee morning hours.<\/p>\n

Their only logical goal would be to discourage as many\u00a0 in-person observers as possible, should anything not proceed as planned.<\/p>\n

Clark County approved a demolition permit for the site on April 20. Since then, Bally\u2019s has been slowly deconstructing the Tropicana, which closed on April 2, just shy of its 67th birthday.<\/p>\n

The Oakland A\u2019s have expressed their intention to build a $1.5 billion, 33,000-seat ballpark on 9 of the site\u2019s 36 acres. According to Bally\u2019s and Gaming & Leisure Properties, which owns the land, the other 27 acres will be developed as a casino resort.<\/p>\n

Critics of the project include Casino.org<\/em>\u2019s own Vital Vegas<\/a><\/em> blogger Scott Roeben, who has written that \u201cthe A\u2019s have shown no signs they have financing for a $1.5 billion anything, including a stadium.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bally\u2019s Corporation, which closed the Tropicana Las Vegas last April and has slowly been demolishing it since, filed an application to implode the casino resort\u2019s two 22-story towers on Thursday. 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