Circa Resort & Casino

Circa Resort & Casino opened its casino on October 28, 2020 and its hotel on December 28, 2020, downtown's first new hotel-casino built from scratch in a generation. Owned by Derek and Greg Stevens — who also run the Golden Gate and The D nearby — the 35-story, adults-only tower assembled the former sites of the Las Vegas Club, Mermaids Casino and Glitter Gulch, and expanded from 512 to 618 rooms in October 2024.

The place

Circa sits at 8 Fremont Street, at the western end of the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas, the neon-canopied pedestrian corridor that has anchored the city's original casino district since the 1990s. The address was assembled from three adjacent, long-closed properties — the Las Vegas Club, Mermaids Casino and the Glitter Gulch strip club, all demolished in 2017 — giving Circa one of the only large, contiguous ground-up building sites downtown has offered in decades, rather than a renovation of an existing tower.

The concept

Derek and Greg Stevens, who also own the Golden Gate and The D Las Vegas a few blocks away, spent from 2015 to 2017 buying up and clearing the Las Vegas Club, Mermaids Casino and Glitter Gulch parcels before building Circa from the ground up — widely reported at the time as downtown's first new hotel-casino built from scratch in a generation. The casino and most non-hotel amenities opened October 28, 2020, with the 512-room hotel tower following on December 28, 2020; a nine-month expansion completed in October 2024 added 106 rooms, including four Sunset Suites, across four additional floors, bringing the total to 618 rooms in a 35-story, 480-foot tower. Circa is positioned as a modern, adults-only counterpoint to Fremont Street's older, more downmarket casinos, built around sports viewing and nightlife rather than a family or classic leisure-resort script. The two-story, 8,002-square-foot casino runs 1,350 slot machines and 49 table games, alongside a three-story sportsbook operated by Circa Sports with room for roughly 1,000 spectators — one of the largest sports-betting viewing spaces in the city. The property earned a AAA Four Diamond rating and Global Gaming Awards Las Vegas' best North American gaming property in 2021, and parking runs through the nine-story, 982-space Garage Mahal across the street.

Dining & wellness

Dining includes Barry's Downtown Prime (steak and seafood, and the only part of the resort open to under-21 guests), 8 East for pan-Asian food, Project BBQ, Saginaw's Delicatessen and Victory Burger & Wings, alongside six bars including the rooftop Legacy Club, Vegas Vickie's and the 165-foot Mega Bar, billed as Nevada's longest indoor bar. Stadium Swim, the resort's signature amenity, spans six pools and 15,756 square feet with capacity for 4,000 people, a 143-foot video screen and year-round temperature control.