Monday, Jan. 17, 2000 | 12:03 p.m.
MESQUITE -- A Mesquite casino is changing its name to prevent confusion with other area businesses.
The three-year-old Rancho Mesquite Resort Casino is in the process of switching over to Eureka Hotel Casino, said casino President Gregory Lee. Lee expects the name change to be effective in March. The property also recently dropped its affiliation with Holiday Inn.
"We felt that our name was very generic," Lee said. "Over the years, there have been five other casinos (in Mesquite), and a lot of residential development. Our name seemed like it was no longer connoting a casino, and could be confused with other developments."
The Mesquite name had been confusing vendors, he said.
"We wanted to give it a name denoting fortune, gaming and what a casino is," Lee said.
The property has a 210-room hotel, 45,000 square feet of casino and retail space and 550 slot machines. The owners of the property also own the Eureka Casino, located just northeast of the Strip on Sahara Avenue in Las Vegas.
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