Red Rock opened in Summerlin on April 18, 2006, bringing a large resort hotel, casino and entertainment complex to the western Las Vegas Valley. Its setting beside Charleston Boulevard and the 215 Beltway made it a destination for nearby residents as well as visitors staying away from the Strip. The desert-oasis design drew on the surrounding landscape rather than an imported city or historical spectacle.
The resort was a new construction project. Station Casinos’ 2004 annual report records construction beginning in April that year, with the hotel, restaurants, spa, meeting spaces and entertainment facilities planned as a coordinated development. The initial hotel opened with more than 400 rooms. A further hotel phase and bowling center were already being developed around the opening period.
The distinction between opening and completion matters here. The company’s later annual report describes the additional hotel rooms as a late-2006 phase and the 72-lane bowling center as an April 2007 expansion. Contemporary filings differ slightly in how they date the hotel phase; together they show a resort still growing after its first casino opening.
Red Rock’s combination of gaming with cinema, bowling, restaurants and a pool complex made it more than an overnight hotel. It brought several kinds of leisure onto one site, an approach suited to repeat visits from the surrounding Valley. These facilities were parts of the same resort, rather than separate casinos created by successive names.
The site also passed through Station’s wider financial reorganization. The successor company’s 2011 filing lists Red Rock among the properties acquired through that process. Corporate ownership changed without replacing the resort’s identity.
Later investment refreshed the existing property. Lotus of Siam’s Red Rock restaurant debuted in 2022, and the company’s 2023 report listed new high-limit gaming rooms among its amenities. In 2026, Station marked the resort’s twentieth anniversary with plans for poolside entertainment and a culinary celebration.
When checked in October 2026, Red Rock remained an operating hotel-casino at 11011 West Charleston Boulevard. Its history is one of expansion and renewal at the same resort, not the replacement of an earlier casino on the site established by these sources.
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Station Casinos 2004 Form 10-K, Future Development / Red Rock: construction commenced April 2004; original coordinated resort plans. Forecast costs and dates not adopted as completed facts.
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Station Casinos September 2006 Form 10-Q, Future Development / Red Rock: actual 18 April opening, 415 initial hotel rooms, planned additional tower and bowling. Relevant indexed primary text read.
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Station Casinos 2007 Form 10-K, operating-results discussion: phase II hotel addition dated December 2006, bowling center April 2007. Earlier 2007 quarterly text describes hotel phase as January 2007; exact first guest-use day not established.
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Station Casinos September 2011 Form 10-Q, fresh-start/restructuring passages: Red Rock among Propco Assets acquired by successor. Relevant indexed primary text.
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Syndicated operator/restaurant release dated 5 December 2022, reporting VIP opening celebration the previous month. Establishes 2022 debut, not a currently guaranteed menu or hours.
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Red Rock Resorts 2023 Form 10-K, Red Rock property description: desert-oasis design, movie theater, bowling, restaurants and new high-limit rooms. Relevant retained PDF passages read; historical amenities snapshot.
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Operator February 2026 announcement for April anniversary events. Supports anniversary program plans, not independent proof of actual attendance or each performance.
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Operator homepage read 21 October 2026: active hotel/casino, cinema and bowling offerings; footer 11011 West Charleston Boulevard. No old offers, event times or former prices adopted.
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Full geometry of named/addressed resort commercial area, way 316302054 version 9, retrieved 21 October 2026. Selected point 36.1563, -115.3340 lies inside area. Not a surveyed building footprint or entrance.
The 2007 annual report dates the additional hotel phase to December 2006, while the September 2007 quarterly report describes it as January 2007. The precise first guest-use day has not been established.
The map marks resort grounds, not an entrance or the exact footprint of each construction phase.
