Casino Project Near M Resort South of Las Vegas Strip Moving Forward
Posted on: December 20, 2020, 12:39h.
Last updated on: December 20, 2020, 01:29h.
The M Resort is a go-to destination for Las Vegas locals and visitors alike who want a five-star experience, but without the hustle and bustle of the Strip.
The M Resort is located eight miles south of the Strip’s “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign. Anthony Marnell III, the visionary behind the gaming complex in Henderson, is again once targeting the area for development.
Last week, the Henderson City Council signed off on a resolution that binds the city into an agreement to sell 8.95 acres of city-owned land to Marnell. The arrangement guarantees that the selling price will be no less than $4,326,000. The acreage is earmarked for hotel and casino development, and is located directly across St. Rose Parkway from the M Resort.
There’s no set time line for when this would start,” Marnell told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
According to city planning documents, Marnell estimates that the proposed casino resort will cost around $250 million, not including the land price. The Henderson resolution requires Marnell to pay the $4.326 million in cash.
History Will Not Repeat
Anthony Marnell is the son of Las Vegas legendary architect Tony Marnell II.
The Marnell Companies, an architecture, design, and construction firm, has been involved in building such Southern Nevada icons as Bellagio and Wynn Las Vegas. More recently, the company helped transition MGM Resorts’ Monte Carlo into Park MGM.
For all of the Marnell Companies’ successes, the $750 million, 390-room M Resort came at the worst time. The boutique hotel casino resort opened in March of 2009, as the national unemployment rate neared 10 percent amid the Great Recession.
Marnell lost its entire ownership position in the casino less than two years after it opened. Penn National Gaming bought the resort’s $860 million debt held by the Bank of Scotland for $231 million in October of 2010.
Marnell has learned from past mistakes in opening a casino hotel amid global economic unrest. With COVID-19 continuing to disrupt business and travel domestically and internationally, Marnell says the company will take its time in deciding whether to move forward with its next Henderson project.
Region Expanding
Today, the M Resort’s physical assets are owned by Penn National Gaming’s real estate investment trust Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. (GLPI). The casino floor measures 96,000 square feet and offers guests 1,089 slot machines and 40 table games.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Penn National and GLPI said they were fielding “unsolicited” interest in its other property in Southern Nevada, Tropicana Las Vegas. If the Strip casino is sold, Penn CEO Jay Snowden believes it could pivot its customers to M Resort.
M Resort is on fire, has been for years,” Snowden said in February during the company’s 2019 investor call.
The area where M Resort is located is benefiting from a housing boom, with apartment complexes and residential communities continuing to be built. The new NFL Las Vegas Raiders practice facility, which sits between M Resort and Henderson Executive Airport, is also bringing new investments to the area.
The M Resort is the official hotel casino of the Raiders.
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What credibility does AM3 have, other than being the son of AM2? The M Resort went belly up in less than two years. He bought Edgewater and Colorado Belle in Laughlin, drove them into the ground for 10 years, them sold them for a big loss. The Belle is so dilapidated that they are going to knock it down and throw it in the Colorado River.
Must preserve right of way to convert St Rose into a freeway, including continuing it west to serve the southwestern suburbs
I went to the M Resort in August 2019 for a Martina Mcbride concert. I had the worst experience in my life (it was *not* Martina-she was fabulous!). I felt as if they had never handled a concert before--very chaotic. I wrote them a letter and no acknowledgement, no apology. I will never go to the M Resort for another concert, not stay on their property.
Does M Resort have bingo?
Southern Highlands is a changing landscape and has been for years. As a local ,locals enjoy our off stripe casinos and M’s is at the top of that list.So the idea of another going up across the street is exciting.St. Rose Pkwy is unrecognizable these days with the enormous changes happening. The widening of Las Vegas Blvd down to SouthPoint Casino from The M....is slated for something big. Obviously casino owners know something we don’t.
Do we really need another casino in Vegas.