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Stardust To Be Imploded March 13th
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by clorenz1 | March 2, 2007 at 01:19 pm
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Boyd Gaming will implode on of the Strip's oldest hotels, the Stardust, on March 13th at 2:30am.The building is being cleared to make way for Echelon Place, a large casino/retail/hotel development. Workers have been gutting it for the best several months - you can barely recognize the shell of the hotel tower and the distinctive neon sign is long gone, to be preserved at the Neon Museum.
Interestingly, Las Vegas had a net loss of 580 rooms in 2006, due to the closings of the Stardust, Lady Luck and other casinos; it was the first decrease in room inventory since 1992. Another 5,100 rooms are scheduled to come on line in 2007, with 39.3 million visitors predicted.
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at 10:45 on March 19th, 2007
I found some video footage of the Stardust's demise. Vegas being Vegas, they couldn't just, you know, blow up a building. They had to add fireworks.