Main Street Station - Las Vegas, Nevada
In 1985 the City of Las Vegas, with
support of the State of Nevada,
approached Bob Snow and Jim Rouse to
undertake the redevelopment of their
city's ailing downtown district. Snow
and Rouse formed a joint venture,and
responded to their invitation.
They proceeded to first help the City of Las Vegas establish a Downtown Development
District, and Community Redevelopment Authority. With the DDD and CRA newly
formed by the city and state governmental bodies,
they undertook what turned out to be a long period of
pre-development work to include planning and
zoning changes, marketing and feasibility studies, the
first use of eminent domain in the City of Las Vegas
history, along with property acquisition to include a
450-room hotel and nearly 10 acres of the downtown
redevelopment area property.
Rouse's Enterprise Development Co, and Snow & Associates’
development, art, and design teams completed all the architectural
and development work on the new urban entertainment complex.
Main Street Station, Rosie O'Grady's Goodtime Emporium, a 450-room hotel, restaurants and a 75,000
sq’ casino opened to SRO crowds. This project brought new life to the redevelopment area, that can still
be seen today.
World renowned gaming developer Steve Wynn summed it up best with a full page advertisement in
the Las Vegas Review Journal, congratulating Main Street Station, as “the most beautiful casino and
entertainment project ever built in Las Vegas”.
A loosely organized confederacy of independent developmental renegades
