By Lucas Hellberg Las Vegas Review-Journal
July 4, 2026 - 7:30 am
PRIMM — Gaming fans hoping to observe the Independence Day play with a sojourn to the border town’s past surviving casino were disappointed Friday to find it closed.
Gas stations and a fashionable Lotto store were unfastened for concern Friday pursuing a alteration successful operators that kept the clump of roadside businesses alive, but dozens of visitors hoping to sojourn the Primm Valley Casino near puzzled and frustrated aft uncovering the casino closed.
The “property is closed for patronage,” work a motion extracurricular the casino’s main entrance. A reopening day hasn’t been set.
Terrible’s, which owns dozens of convenience stores successful the Las Vegas Valley and casinos successful different parts of Nevada, took implicit operations successful Primm connected Wednesday, conscionable successful clip for the Fourth of July weekend. The erstwhile operator, Affinity Gaming, announced connected May 5 that it would permanently adjacent its Primm operations connected July 4 aft it could not find anyone to instrumentality over.
Primm has been a “significant currency drain and absorption distraction of Affinity for galore years,” Affinity spokesperson Melissa Krantz said successful a May connection to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
In a telephone interrogation Friday, Terrible’s spokesperson Lisa Robinson said she did not cognize erstwhile the casino volition reopen. She said Terrible’s is presently moving with regulators, and that it volition reopen arsenic soon arsenic possible.
George McCabe, a spokesperson for the Primm household — which owns the casino spot and is leasing it to Terrible’s — said he’s not amazed that the casino has not yet reopened.
“Everything is going to program arsenic acold arsenic I know,” McCabe said.
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