Echelon is Boyd Gaming Corporation’s replacement for the Stardust Resort & Casino. Echelon has an estimated cost of $4 billion with construction beginning in 2007 and the opening was initially planned for in 2010. On August 1, 2008, Boyd Gaming announced that construction of Echelon would be delayed for 3 to 4 quarters due to changes in U.S. economic conditions.
Echelon will be a multi-use project on 87 acres (35 ha) with a 140,000 sq ft (13,000 m2) casino, 4 hotels providing 5,300 rooms, 25 restaurants and bars, the 650,000 sq ft (60,000 m2) Las Vegas ExpoCenter, and a 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m2) convention center. The Echelon Resort will be a 3,300 room hotel owned and operated by Boyd.
The other hotels are expected to be a Shangri-La Hotel, a Delano Hotel, a Mondrian Hotel, and the Echelon Tower.