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Boyd Gaming Corporation is an American gaming and hospitality company based in Paradise, Nevada.The company continues to be run by founder Sam Boyd's family under the management of Sam's granddaughter, Marianne Boyd-Johnson, who currently serves as the company's executive chairman after her father, Bill, was appointed Chairman Emeritus in May 2023.
The fourth Sam's Town was a riverboat casino that operated in Kansas City, Missouri, from September 1995 until July 1998. [8] It was branded as Sam's Town Gambling Hall, Kansas City. The fifth Sam's Town opened in May 2004 after Boyd Gaming acquired an existing property in Shreveport, Louisiana, from Harrah's Entertainment. Branded as Sam's ...
It is named after Sam Boyd, and is owned and operated by Boyd Gaming. It includes a 120,681 sq ft (11,211.6 m 2) casino, a nine-story hotel with 646 rooms, and an RV park. Sam's Town opened in March 1979, with 204 rooms. The property would expand multiple times to add new features, including a 56-lane bowling alley in 1981.
Several hotel-casinos branded Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall, along with UNLV's Sam Boyd Stadium, are named in his honor. Boyd married Mary Neumann in 1931. They had their only child, William S. Boyd, within a year. [1] Sam Boyd died on January 15, 1993, at the age of 82 at a local hospital in Las Vegas after lengthy illnesses.
Based in Las Vegas, Boyd has 28 gaming entertainment properties in 10 U.S. states, manages a tribal casino in northern California, and operates an online casino gaming business.
The facility was opened on May 25, 1994, [1] by Boyd Gaming as the third casino branded as Sam's Town [a] and the first casino opened by Boyd outside of Nevada. It was built to replicate a Western town; at the time it opened it was 400,000 square feet (37,000 m 2) in size with a 200-room hotel.
The California is owned by Boyd Gaming, [1] and was the company's first property in downtown Las Vegas. [2] It was developed by a group of stockholders led by Sam Boyd, who held 25 percent ownership. His son, Bill Boyd, held another 25 percent. [3] The 11-story [4] hotel tower was topped off in September 1974.
In 1983, Sam Boyd bought the Fremont to add to his Boyd Gaming group properties. [3] The Fremont Hotel and Casino is one of the casinos and hotels currently located in Downtown Las Vegas that is part of the Fremont Street Experience. The casino is located on what is commonly referred to as the four corners. These are the four main hotels that ...