{"id":14113,"date":"2016-04-24T02:50:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T09:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=14113"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:37:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T06:37:08","slug":"demolition-of-riviera-las-vegas-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/demolition-of-riviera-las-vegas-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition of Riviera Las Vegas Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Demolition of the Riviera has begun in earnest at the shuttered Las Vegas hotel-casino.<\/p>\n

While specific dates for implosions of the Riviera’s two hotel towers have yet to be announced, it’s likely they’ll come down in hotel towers.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, about a dozen other low-rise buildings on the site will be demolished in a less dramatic fashion, with wrecking balls, excavators and bulldozers.<\/p>\n

That process has already under way. Here’s a look at the hotel’s former convention center.<\/p>\n

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Work crews take giant bites out of Riviera’s convention center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Riviera closed May 4, 2015<\/a>. The intended purpose of the site is to expand the Las Vegas Convention Center.<\/p>\n

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Demolition crews were working on a weekend, so we figure the schedule must be ambitious.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While we were snapping pics of the destruction, we captured some video, too. We tried adding some upbeat music, but it’s still a little sad.<\/p>\n

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