Texas Station opened on July 12, 1995, in North Las Vegas, near Lake Mead Boulevard and Rancho Drive. Originally Texas Gambling Hall & Hotel, it joined Station Casinos’ expansion into the Valley’s growing residential communities. Its Texas-themed frontage belonged to a casino hotel built for local outings as well as overnight stays. The casino shut in March 2020 and never reopened.
A difficult start and a new name
Station’s own 1997 annual report acknowledged a difficult first eighteen months and described physical and operational changes at the property. It also recorded the change from Texas Gambling Hall & Hotel to Texas Station as a way to strengthen the association with the company’s other casinos. That was a rename of the same property, not a move or a replacement casino.
More than a casino floor
The resort grew beyond its early configuration. The 1997 report described a hotel, restaurants and a twelve-screen theater. The company’s filing for 2016 described an eighteen-screen theater, a sixty-lane bowling center, entertainment and event spaces, and meeting facilities. Together, those dated accounts show the broader range of activities available before its closure without assigning every addition an unsupported opening date.
A different use during the shutdown
After the casino stopped operating, part of the property took on another public role. In June 2020 the Southern Nevada Health District advertised drive-through COVID-19 testing in Texas Station’s parking garage at 2101 Texas Star Lane, supported by the city and Station Casinos. The closed resort became a place where residents came for a public-health service rather than gambling or entertainment.
Permanent closure and demolition
Red Rock Resorts’ June 2022 filing separated the original pandemic shutdown from a later decision: Texas Station, Fiesta Rancho and Fiesta Henderson would close permanently, with demolition intended to prepare their land for sale. By November 2023, developer Agora described the Texas Station and Fiesta Rancho sites as demolished and confirmed its land purchase. The two neighboring casinos remained distinct historic properties, even as their land entered one redevelopment project.
What came after Texas Station
Hylo Park is the next chapter of the land, rather than a new name for the old casino. In August 2026 Agora reported completed construction of Hylo Park South’s shopping center on part of the former Texas Station site. Its September account described further sports, hotel and retail plans for Hylo Park North. Those later phases should not be mistaken for completed attractions. The main illustration evokes the former entrance; the historical photograph preserves its appearance in December 2010; the approximate map point identifies the former casino vicinity.
Read the full history ↗ Sources and context
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PDF index 34, acquisition note: commenced operations July 12, 1995. PDF index 9: difficult first eighteen months and Texas Gambling Hall & Hotel renamedTexas Station by this report. PDF index 1: contemporary hotel/restaurants/twelve-screen theater. Relative last-spring wording not converted into an exact rename date.
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Business, Texas Station property description: Lake Mead Boulevard/Rancho Drive, Texas-style architecture, 18-screen theater, 60-lane bowling and event/meeting amenities. Historical description, not current availability.
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Expired event datedJune 9, 2020: testing in parking garage at 2101 Texas Star Lane, North Las Vegas, supported by city, health district and Station Casinos. Used only as historical account; no current medical guidance or service schedule adopted.
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Note 1 and MD&A Overview: closed sinceMarch 2020, permanent-closure decisionJune 2022, demolition intended for land sale. This contemporaneous announcement is not itself proof demolition was already complete.
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November 18, 2023 developer-republished report, opening paragraphs: demolished casino sites and completed escrow. Broader redevelopment land includes distinct historical properties.
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August 5, 2026 report: developer announced completed construction on former casino site at southeast corner ofRancho/LakeMead. Construction completion not equated with every tenant open.
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September 30, 2026 developer-republished report: later north phase includes hotel/sports/retail plans. Planned facilities not described as complete.
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GeoNames 11280037 at 36.19843, -115.1909. Approximate former hotel vicinity only; operator and historical health-district address corroborate site. Gazetteer present-tense hotel category is stale; closure verified separately. Different GeoNames 6482464 locator further south not used.
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AJFU own-work photograph datedDecember 29, 2010; uploadedJuly 19, 2018. Explicit CC BY-SA 4.0 International. Original 2592×1944 pixels, 2300609 bytes, visually inspected and native stored bytes verified.
The March 2020 date records the end of casino operation. The decision to make closure permanent came inJune 2022; demolition and land redevelopment followed.
The 1997 annual report documents the Texas Station rename but its relative wording does not establish a precise calendar date for that change.
Former-site gazetteer points vary. The map uses an approximate hotel/casino vicinity supported by the historical corner and address; it does not claim a surveyed former building footprint.
Hylo Park spans the former Texas Station and neighboring Fiesta Rancho land. The two historic casinos are not treated as one property, and planned later phases are not described as already open.
The historical entrance photograph dates to December 29, 2010. The main image is an AI-generated illustration based on a user-supplied photograph of unknown date; neither shows the current redeveloped site.
