Costing about $300 million to build, it made it one of the company's most expensive owned properties at the time. Green Valley Ranch was Station Casino's eighth hotel and casino to open. Station Casinos partnered up with American Nevada, which is owned and operated by the Greenspun family, who also owns the adjacent Green Valley neighborhood and contributed $40 million in to the project's land and cash. The casino, predicted to be about 54,000 square feet, was to include over 2,000 slot machines and 40 table games, along with a race and sports book and a poker room.
Along with that would be a 22,000-square foot state-of-the-art spa with outdoor pools, a 10-screen movie theater, full-service restaurants, a food court with six outlets and a non-gaming arcade. The resort and casino, described as 'Santa Barbara-like' and unnamed at the time, was planned to feature over 330,000 square feet of public space and two hundred hotel rooms. At a predicated cost of $270-$280 million, the resort and casino would be commencing during the middle of 2000 and would be expected to open in early 2001. Along with the resort came with a 170-acre mixed-use retail, office, and commercial project.
On March of 2000, Station Casinos announced that that the company would be building a new locals resort and casino on a 40-acre site just on the south side of Interstate 215 at Green Valley Parkway in Henderson.
