Boyd Gaming has announced a new Nevada casino project that it expects to open by early 2026. Cadence Crossing, a 50,000-square-foot facility with a 10,000-square-foot casino, will break ground in Henderson on the same location as Joker’s Wild, later this year.

we felt that this was a good time to move forward”

“It’s a reflection of Cadence and the growth we’re seeing there,” Boyd spokesman David Strow said on the company’s second-quarter earnings call on Thursday. “There’s 5,000 homes there. Now it’s one of the fastest-growing master-planned communities, not only in Las Vegas but the entire country. So given the amount of growth that we’ve seen there, the amount of growth that we anticipate coming up at Cadence, we felt that this was a good time to move forward.”

Should everything go to plan, Cadence Crossing would become Boyd’s first casino development from the ground-up in two decades, but even that tidbit comes with caveats. In 2004, Boyd Gaming bought Coast Casinos, which included the under-construction South Coast. South Coast opened at the end of 2005, but Boyd sold it to Michael Gaughan in 2006, who renamed it South Point.

Boyd Gaming began construction on Echelon Place in mid-2007, but halted development for years because of the global recession. In 2013, it sold it to Genting Group, which completed it as Resorts World Las Vegas.

The last Las Vegas area casino that Boyd Gaming built from the ground up and still operates was Sam’s Town – named after company founder Sam Boyd – which opened on April 1, 1979.