The property was the scene of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. It then acquired most of the 15-acre former Route 91 site for about $92.8 million from casino giant MGM Resorts International in December. MHA Nation, owner of the 4 Bears casino in North Dakota, started buying land in Las Vegas in summer 2020, when it purchased an 8.7-acre lot immediately east of the former Route 91 site for $12 million through a bankruptcy case. “We’re really going to the drawing board,” Fox said. He also said his team is still formulating a vision for MHA Nation’s real estate holdings in Las Vegas, noting their options include developing a casino-resort or flipping the land to new owners. “It definitely cannot be salvaged,” MHA Nation Chairman Mark Fox told the Review-Journal on Wednesday.įox said the plan for the motel building is to “tear it down and clean it up.” He doesn’t have a time frame but figures it would cost at least $1 million to demolish the structure and clean the site. It has also been in rough shape for years and seemed destined for demolition. The one-story motel closed well over a decade ago and sits behind mesh-covered fencing topped with barbed wire and razor wire and secured with multiple locks. MHA Nation has now bought a total of 23 acres along the south Strip for $115 million combined.īuilt in the 1950s during Las Vegas’ Mafia days, the White Sands is across from the Luxor but is the kind of property many people likely don’t even notice. The narrow, 1.1-acre parcel is surrounded on three sides by the former Route 91 Harvest festival site, most of which was purchased last year by the tribal group also known as Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation. The Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota closed its $10.25 million purchase of the former White Sands Motel site last week, property records show. (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal) boarded-up motel property on the Strip with a history of vandalism, vagrants and feral cats is under new ownership and slated to be torn down.

A sign for the former White Sands Motel remains on South Las Vegas Boulevard on Friday, March 24, 2023, in Las Vegas.

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