The real estate trust holding the land under the former Tropicana hotel-casino said it would not be footing the full bill for ...

The Tropicana Las Vegas hotel — famous as both a Rat Pack haunt and a monument to mobster lore — was imploded at 2:30 a.m. local time to make room for a baseball stadium. “Tonight we bid farewell to ...

The iconic Tropicana hotel and casino came down in an elaborate implosion early Wednesday in Las Vegas. The Tropicana was the last true mob building on the Las Vegas Strip. The implosion cleared land ...

The iconic building, which first opened on April 4, 1957, officially closed its doors to the public on April 2 Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023 and ...

The Tropicana Las Vegas opened in 1957 and was demolished Wednesday. The resort closed in April 2024 to make way for a planned 33,000-seat domed stadium for Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletics.

LAS VEGAS — Sin City blew a kiss goodbye to the Tropicana before first light Wednesday in an elaborate implosion that reduced to rubble the last true mob building on the Las Vegas Strip. The Tropicana ...

Sin City said goodbye to the Tropicana with a flashy implosion in the early hours of Wednesday, marking the end of its mob era and making way for new construction on the Las Vegas Strip. The ...