Station Casinos / Red Rock Resorts
Station Casinos (legal entity: Red Rock Resorts) is the largest operator of locals-oriented hotel-casinos in the Las Vegas Valley, with 7 major properties plus 9 small Wildfire-branded slot rooms, plus the brand-new (2025) Seventy Six Tavern format. The company is controlled by the Fertitta family — brothers Frank III (chairman) and Lorenzo (vice-chair) — sons of founder Frank Fertitta Jr., who opened the original Casino (later Palace Station) in 1976.
The Fertittas were also the principal owners of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) from 2001 until the $4B sale to WME-IMG in 2016. See The Fertitta family across Vegas for the full family map — Frank/Lorenzo are distant cousins of Tilman Fertitta, not brothers.
Properties owned (8)
- Palace Station — Station's original property · 1976
- Boulder Station — Station property · Boulder Highway · 1994
- Sunset Station — Station property · Henderson · $53M refresh underway
- Santa Fe Station — Station property · acquired 2000
- Green Valley Ranch — Henderson flagship · Station · 2001
- Red Rock Resort — Summerlin flagship · Station's public company is named after this property
- Durango Casino & Resort — Newest Station property · 2023 · $385M expansion underway
- Wildfire Casinos (9 small properties) — Station's small-format brand · ~9 locations across the Valley
Pub / tavern brands
- Seventy Six Tavern — Station's new tavern brand · launched 2025 · 3 LV locations
History
Station went private in 2007 in a Fertitta-led $5.4B LBO with Colony Capital, declared bankruptcy in 2009 during the financial crisis, and re-emerged as Red Rock Resorts via 2016 IPO. Three former Station properties — Texas Station, Fiesta Rancho, and Fiesta Henderson — were closed in 2020 and demolished by 2024. Sister property Aliante was sold to Boyd Gaming in 2016 (out of the 2011 bankruptcy reorg of Aliante's separate JV). The newest Station property, Durango Casino & Resort, opened in late 2023 and entered a mid-$385M expansion phase in 2026.
References
- Station Casinos / Red Rock Resorts history. Wikipedia; RRR SEC filings.