The casinos successful Primm are acceptable to spell dark, but the past remaining store successful its outlet promenade remains unfastened for business.
Sanithrift sent retired an email Friday promoting its “Summer Treasure Hunt” implicit Memorial Day weekend. Shoppers who implicit the in-store quest volition get 30 percent disconnected their full purchase.
The connection runs Friday done Monday.
“Because successful the desert, the champion oasis isn’t ever water. Sometimes it’s treasure,” the email says.
Finding the thrift store itself shouldn’t beryllium excessively hard: Sanithrift’s sanction is displayed successful immense superior letters connected the exterior of the mall, and it’s the only retailer left successful a sprawling outlet halfway that was erstwhile packed with stores and shoppers.
“Sanithrift remains afloat operational and committed to serving the assemblage without interruption,” selling manager Samantha Jo Julian said successful a connection Friday, adding that portion absorption is alert of the announced closures successful Primm, “it does not interaction Sanithrift’s operations.”
“While conditions successful the broader marketplace volition proceed to evolve, our committedness remains unwavered: disciplined operations, beardown assemblage access, a dignified thrift acquisition and delivering meaningful savings to the families we serve,” she said.
She besides said the store continues to spot “consistent lawsuit activity” from locals, travelers, commuters and destination shoppers.
Closures connected the way
Overall, Primm, an unincorporated country on Interstate 15, astir 40 miles southbound of the Las Vegas Strip, has struggled for years and is astir to go even quieter.
Las Vegas-based Affinity Gaming told authorities officials successful a missive dated May 5 that it volition permanently adjacent its operations astatine Primm’s 3 hotel-casino properties — Whiskey Pete’s, Buffalo Bill’s and Primm Valley Resort — and astatine the Primm Center state presumption and Flying J trucker fueling halt successful Primm.
Overall, 344 employees volition suffer their jobs, and the businesses volition adjacent connected July 4, the missive said.
An flat analyzable successful Primm that was built for the section workforce is besides closing, and the adjacent Lotto store conscionable implicit the borderline successful California is closing too.
Affinity does not run Primm Mall, arsenic the spot is present known.
The promenade — formerly Prizm Outlets and, earlier that, Fashion Outlets of Las Vegas — is attached to Primm Valley Resort and utilized to beryllium a engaged place.
It opened successful 1998 to a assemblage of astir 10,000 radical and was 85 percent leased, and by 2007, it was 99 percent leased and among the apical 10 outlet centers nationally by sales. As precocious arsenic 2015, it was inactive astir 92 percent occupied, according to published accounts.
The mall, which spans astir 380,000 quadrate feet, is positioned to intercept tourists and others driving betwixt Southern Nevada and Southern California connected I-15, a heavy traveled route. But successful Las Vegas, contention for shoppers has lone accrued implicit the years, with galore malls and different retail hubs present lining the tourist-choked Strip.
There are besides 2 outlet malls — 1 downtown, the different southbound of the Strip — that are operated by retail elephantine Simon Property Group and gully tourists and locals alike.
Last store standing
Eventually, fiscal issues started brewing astatine the promenade successful Primm.
After waves of tenants moved out, lenders foreclosed connected the mall successful 2018. It was astir 66 percent occupied astatine the clip and had “significant deferred attraction passim the property,” mortgage-research steadfast Trepp antecedently reported.
Kohan Retail Investment Group yet acquired the promenade for conscionable $400,000 successful 2021, aft it was appraised astatine $125 cardinal respective years earlier, successful 2012, tribunal records show.
By 2022, the promenade had been blanketed successful murals, but only a fistful of retailers were left. The fountains wherever radical could flip coins for foundation were bony dry, and the nutrient tribunal was closed.
In 2025, an lawyer for Primm’s landowner radical indicated to the Las Vegas Review-Journal that his clients present operated the outlet mall, aft they had filed a suit alleging past-due rent connected the crushed lease.
Sanithrift, meanwhile, spans 30,000 quadrate feet and initially debuted astatine the promenade astir precocious 2021.
It temporarily closed successful 2024, with signs connected the doors saying it was being updated, and past held a expansive opening past June.
The store says that each garment is sanitized. As seen connected a caller visit, its offerings included $12.99 jackets; $9.99 jeans; $3.99 men’s shorts; and 99-cent T-shirts.
Shoppers participate Sanithrift from the parking lot, but the remainder of the outlet halfway is closed.
Entrances to the promenade are locked. Plus, the roll-down gross wrong Sanithrift — a information obstruction that’s usually successful usage erstwhile a store is closed — was down during concern hours, preventing shoppers from entering the corridors of the emptied retail hub astir it.
Contact Eli Segall astatine esegall@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0342.
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