{"id":18099,"date":"2017-08-24T09:11:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T16:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=18099"},"modified":"2020-12-03T04:55:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T12:55:04","slug":"las-vegas-club-demolition-rubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/las-vegas-club-demolition-rubble\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Club Demolition Update: Rubble Happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The demolition of downtown&rsquo;s Las Vegas Club continues at a brisk pace.<\/p>\n<p>Crews and their toys have virtually finished off the casino level of the former Las Vegas Club.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18100\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-18100 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" alt=\"Las Vegas Club demolition\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/28_fremont_demolition_082317_1.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soon, the Las Vegas Club will re-emerge as a new resort. Sort of like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, but in this case the butterfly is wearing tassels. Hey, it&rsquo;s Vegas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>See our complete, borderline obsessive, coverage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/las-vegas-club-demolition-rounds-second-base\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Las Vegas Club demolition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The street-facing facades of the Las Vegas Club and Glitter Gulch strip club are being kept in place to assist with dust suppression, as well as for as aesthetic reasons. The facade of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/mermaids-casino-demolished-downtown-las-vegas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mermaids casino<\/a> was supposed to stay up as well, but the excavator guy had a little too much coffee that day. That&rsquo;s our technical explanation, as we know less about demolitions than sports, which we didn&rsquo;t actually think was possible.<\/p>\n<p>North American Dismantling Corp., out of Michigan, has now turned it attention to the Las Vegas Club&rsquo;s parking structure.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s a look at the Las Vegas Club demolition site, mainly because it&rsquo;s less expensive than therapy.<\/p>\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-uyzdup4asp4\" style=\"max-width:900px;\" class=\"arve\">\n<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n<div style=\"aspect-ratio:500\/281\" class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.200000%\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<iframe allow=\"accelerometer 'none';autoplay 'none';camera 'none';ch-ua 'none';clipboard-read 'none';clipboard-write;display-capture 'none';encrypted-media 'none';gamepad 'none';geolocation 'none';gyroscope 'none';hid 'none';identity-credentials-get 'none';idle-detection 'none';keyboard-map 'none';local-fonts 'none';magnetometer 'none';microphone 'none';midi 'none';payment 'none';picture-in-picture;publickey-credentials-create 'none';publickey-credentials-get 'none';screen-wake-lock 'none';serial 'none';sync-xhr;usb 'none';window-management 'none';xr-spatial-tracking 'none';\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" credentialless data-arve=\"arve-youtube-uyzdup4asp4\" data-lenis-prevent=\"\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/UYzdup4Asp4?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505.8\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/UYzdup4Asp4?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" title=\"\" width=\"900\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.casino.org\\\/vitalvegas\\\/las-vegas-club-demolition-rubble\\\/#arve-youtube-uyzdup4asp4\",\"type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\/embed\\\/UYzdup4Asp4?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0\"}<\/script>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Workers are using a massive excavator to cut through the Las Vegas Club&rsquo;s parking garage like butter, but it&rsquo;s not the biggest excavator that will be used during the demolition.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, a record-breaking excavator, with a reach of 182 feet, will be delivered on a fleet of trucks.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s the longest reach excavator in the country and we&rsquo;re giddy about seeing it in&nbsp;action.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18101\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18101\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-18101 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" alt=\"Las Vegas Club demolition\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/28_fremont_demolition_082317_2.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&rsquo;s like cutting into a layer cake, but with rebar instead of frosting. Or something.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Starting in September, the shorter of the two Las Vegas Club hotel towers is slated to come down first, followed by the taller.<\/p>\n<p>After a bit of clean-up, the entire 18 Fremont block will be ready for construction of a&nbsp;new resort from Derek and Greg Stevens (also out of Michigan, by the way), owners of The D and Golden Gate.<\/p>\n<p>Demolition of the Las Vegas Club and 18 Fremont block should be completed by the end of 2017, at which point we&rsquo;ll have a massive void in our lives which we hope to fill with Captain Morgan and age-inappropriate women.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, you do therapy your way and we&rsquo;ll do it our way.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demolition of downtown&rsquo;s Las Vegas Club continues at a brisk pace. Crews and their toys have virtually finished off the casino level of the former Las Vegas Club. See our complete, borderline obsessive, coverage of the Las Vegas Club demolition. The street-facing facades of the Las Vegas Club and Glitter Gulch strip club are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-downtownlasvegas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Las Vegas Club Demolition Update: Rubble Happens<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The demolition of downtown&#039;s Las Vegas Club continues. 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