{"id":14113,"date":"2016-04-24T02:50:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T09:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=14113"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:37:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T06:37:08","slug":"demolition-of-riviera-las-vegas-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/demolition-of-riviera-las-vegas-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition of Riviera Las Vegas Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demolition of the Riviera has begun in earnest at the shuttered Las Vegas hotel-casino.<\/p>\n
While specific dates for implosions of the Riviera’s two hotel towers have yet to be announced, it’s likely they’ll come down in hotel towers.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, about a dozen other low-rise buildings on the site will be demolished in a less dramatic fashion, with wrecking balls, excavators and bulldozers.<\/p>\n
That process has already under way. Here’s a look at the hotel’s former convention center.<\/p>\n