The company had purchased the land in 2007 and prepared the property’s design in 2008. In an interview earlier this month, Goett said Olympia took advantage of waiting for the right time to go forward with the project. The shopping center’s anchor tenant is sporting goods chain Scheels. The casino will be adjacent to two hotels Olympia already owns - a 104-room Residence Inn by Marriott and a 102-room Hampton Inn &Suites - and a retail center known as the Outlets at Legends. The property will include the 24-hour LB Grill, which Goett described as more than a cafe with a full-meal menu, and Craft 55, pouring 55 of the top local and regional craft brews.Ī Galaxy Theatres complex with an IMAX screen shares a common wall with the casino property. Legends also will have a “Food Truck Hall” that will include street eats served from food trucks by Pizza Genius (pizza, Italian food and submarine sandwiches), Loco Bueno (Mexican food) and Red 88 (Asian cuisine). Goett plans to bring the popular Duke’s Steak House concept from Casino Fandango to Legends. Licensing for the sportsbook was unanimously approved in a separate vote. It’ll also have a sportsbook operated by Derek Stevens’ Circa Sports, his first operation in Northern Nevada.

Goett opened Casino Fandango in Carson City in 2003 and top managers there will also oversee Legends. Finishing touches are underway at the development near Sparks Marina Park Lake along Interstate 80, east of Reno. The $120 million property - small by Las Vegas standards - will have a 40,000-square-foot casino with 660 slot machines and 10 table games staffed by 300 employees.

The casino’s Las Vegas-based operator Olympia Gaming, led by Garry Goett, will construct the first from-the-ground-up casino property in the Reno-Sparks area in more than 20 years. The state’s newest casino, Legends Bay Casino, is scheduled to open in Northern Nevada in August after the Nevada Gaming Commission on Thursday unanimously approved its licensing. A rendering of the Legends Bay Casino, scheduled to open in Sparks, Nevada.

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