Remodeling at the Sahara began in February, after Los Angeles-based owner SBE Entertainment got the final piece of $415 million in financing to overhaul the buildings.
The 1,620-room property is scheduled to reopen in fall 2014 as the SLS Las Vegas, a rebirth for a storied Strip resort that fell on hard times in the recession and finally closed in May 2011 after punishingly low room rates made it economically viable.
The work was just a small part of the ongoing renovation project, which also calls for stripping down and remodeling two of the property’s three hotel towers and demolishing a low-rise hotel building. Renovation at the site will culminate in the scheduled opening of the SLS Las Vegas in the fall of 2014.ĭemolition work continued Friday at the Sahara where workers began dismantling the former NASCAR Cafe. Crews begin demolition work on the NASCAR Cafe at the site of the Sahara hotel-casino on Friday.
