All’s Not Grand at Vegas’ Downtown Grand

• The Downtown Grand is suffering financial hardships
• The casino has shortened the hours for when its table games are playable and has permanently closed the Freedom Beat restaurant
• Rumors suggest the casino’s owners are looking to offload the property

Las Vegas’ Downtown Grand Vegas has scaled back its live table game hours and food offerings, doing little to dispel the rumor of impending doom first reported by Casino.org‘s own Vital Vegas on July 28.

The property’s new table game hours are as follows:

• Monday–Wednesday: 2 pm–2 am
• Thursday: 11 am – 2 am
• Friday–Saturday: 11 am – 5 am
• Sunday: 11 am – 3 am

Its previous table games were from 11 am – 3 am Monday-Thursday and 9 am Friday through 3 am Monday.

As Vital Vegas also previously reported, the property’s Freedom Beat restaurant has permanently closed. That leaves Lucky’s, the hot dog stand at the front of the casino (which now offers sandwiches) and the third-floor pool (which offers breakfast and lunch from 10 am – 5 pm) as the property’s only onsite dining options (though Pizza Rock and the Triple George are right next door).

Downturn Grand

The rumor Vital Vegas reported two weeks ago was that Downtown Grand was in so much financial trouble, its vendor invoices are going unpaid, and its private owner, CIM Group, is “ready to dump Downtown Grand for peanuts just to make the bleeding stop.”

According to that blog post, Downtown Grand “has struggled for some time, but things really went south when a deal to be acquired by Penske Media Corp. fell through.”

Penske owns Rolling Stone, and, if successful, those negotiations — which entered due diligence in March 2025 before collapsing in July — would most likely have resulted in a rebrand of the Downtown Grand to align with the aging rock music magazine.

Lady Bad Luck

The Downtown Grand last made headlines in May, when its owners refused to extend the lease with their tenant, Hogs & Heifers, due to excessive noise. The rowdy biker bar is relocating to 307-319 Main St.

Now that everything appears to be quiet at Downtown Grand —  including business — that rent money sure seems like it could have come in handy.

Only a couple of days ago, the Golden Gate confirmed that it was removing all its live table games and their dealers, replacing them with electronic substitutes.

The Downtown Grand began in 1964, when the former Honest John’s newsstand and barbershop at 3rd and Ogden streets was purchased by Andy Tompkins and reopened as a casino. It was renamed Lady Luck in 1968 and operated under that name until shuttering in 2006.

The property reopened as Downtown Grand in 2013 after a major renovation.