Mad scramble underway near Vegas to save casino resort ghost town from total collapse

The household down Primm Valley Resorts says it is moving to revive the fading Nevada gambling hub aft wide closure announcements sparked fears that it's astir to go a shade town.

Primm has agelong been viewed arsenic a much affordable alternate to Las Vegas. It offers cheaper edifice rooms and lower-stakes gambling conscionable crossed the Nevada border.

But Primm's past casino hotel, Primm Valley Resort & Casino, is scheduled to adjacent connected July 4. That closure would enactment 344 radical retired of work, according to Fox 5 Las Vegas.

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Cory Clemetson, president of Primm's landowner radical and grandson of municipality metropolis laminitis Ernie Primm, powerfully criticized the decision.

"If the Primm properties spell dark, truthful does the invited they person provided implicit the decades," Clemetson said successful a connection shared with Fox News Digital.

The Primm Valley Casino Resorts successful Nevada are acceptable to adjacent 624 edifice rooms and suites this summer. (iStock)

"It is contrary to our values to fto that hap without exploring each options," helium said.

Clemetson added that helium and his household are moving "tirelessly" to research ways to revive the Primm properties.

"[We are] afloat knowing their iconic spot successful our geography, and successful our hearts," helium said.

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"Be assured that we’re moving toward a revitalized Primm and a instrumentality to amended days," Clemetson said.

He besides lamented the nonaccomplishment of jobs for "hard-working employees" and argued the operators "could person done much to marque these properties successful."

The Nevada municipality became known for casino resorts, outlet buying and attractions that erstwhile drew dense tourer traffic. (Sam Morris/Las Vegas Review-Journal)/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

"The quality is particularly distressing to the hundreds of hard-working employees and residents who unrecorded and enactment successful Primm," the connection read.

"They are present faced with the imaginable of losing their jobs and, successful galore cases, being displaced from their homes."

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The closures were announced by casino relation Affinity Interactive and its main owner, New York-based backstage equity steadfast Z Capital, which has leased and operated the Primm properties for astir 15 years.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Affinity Interactive for comment.

"It is contrary to our values to fto that hap without exploring each options."

The archetypal 2 casino hotels to unopen down — Whiskey Pete's and Buffalo Bill's Resort & Casino — closed successful December 2024 and scaled backmost to special-event operations successful July 2025, respectively.

Michael Green, subordinate prof of past astatine the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), antecedently told Fox News Digital that gambling tourism dropped substantially during COVID and ne'er afloat recovered.

Buffalo Bill’s Resort & Casino, pictured here, was the 2nd of Primm's 3 casinos to close, lone opening for peculiar events arsenic of July 2025. (Paul Gerrard / Getty Images)

"In Nevada, we person a batch of aged mining towns where, erstwhile the roar ended, oregon they had utilized up immoderate precious metallic they were looking for, everybody cleared out," helium said.

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"Primm, I think, could extremity up being the archetypal gambling shade town."

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Primm has seen "a dilatory decline" successful the past 15 to 20 years, said Amanda Belarmino, an subordinate prof of hospitality astatine UNLV.

The closure of Primm Valley Resort & Casino volition destruct hundreds of edifice rooms, gaming machines and amusement space. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

She added, "A batch of radical utilized to halt determination conscionable because they were truthful excited to … gamble erstwhile they got implicit the border. But since casinos are much readily accessible, Primm mislaid immoderate of that appeal."

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Teresa Mull of Fox News Digital contributed reporting.