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The Montage Reno

The Montage Reno
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Former names Sahara Reno
Reno Hilton
Flamingo Hilton Reno
Flamingo Reno
Golden Phoenix Reno
General information
Type Residential
Address 255 North Sierra Street
Town or city Reno, Nevada
Country United States
Opened 1978; 39 years ago (1978)
Renovated 2006-08
Owner ST Residential LLC
Design and construction
Architecture firm Antunovich Associates
Garofalo Architects
Website
Official website

The Montage Reno (formerly Sahara Reno, Reno Hilton, Flamingo Hilton Reno, Flamingo Reno and Golden Phoenix Reno) is a high-rise residential building in Reno, Nevada. The building was converted into a condominium tower from 2006–08, after more than 30 years as a hotel-casino-resort.

The separate Virginia Street casino operated from 1955 until 1978 as the Primadonna.

The main hotel/casino, on North Sierra Street, connected by an airwalk was originally opened in 1978 as Sahara Reno, owned by Del Webb. The Virginia Street location was opened as Siri's Casino in 2014.

In 1981, the Sahara Reno became the Reno Hilton, then renovated in 1992 and became the Flamingo Hilton Reno.

In 2000, Hilton declined to renew its licensing agreement with the Flamingo brand, and the Flamingo Hilton Reno became simply the Flamingo Reno, returning to the original brand formed in the 1940s in Las Vegas.

The 602 room hotel-casino made a profit until its corporate owner Park Place Entertainment, owned by a subsidiary of Hilton Hotels, decided the resort was no longer profitable in a declining gaming market. They decided to close the property on October 21, 2001. The property was sold soon after closing to Vista Hospitality LLC of New York who pledged to renovate and reopen the hotel-casino.

The new name—Golden Phoenix Reno—was announced in early 2002. The property's hotel reopened in April 2002 with few renovations, those would come latter and much less than originally intended. The property operated solely as a hotel with one restaurant until the official "grand opening" in Summer 2003. Golden Phoenix Reno's ambitions to rise above as a leading Downtown property never came to fruition and the hotel struggled from the onset. Beginning in 2004, a revolution spawning the country "condos" hit Reno and the fever to convert older, failing or closed hotel-casinos into condominiums tapped Golden Phoenix Reno. Chicago developer Fernando Leal was flown out to Reno to view Golden Phoenix Reno as a potential asset for future renovation, initially, he hated the building. But after repeat visits, was convinced and put a bid in to buy the ailing hotel. He would later win it and announce his plans to convert the property into "The Montage" following $170 million investment that would take the property down to its concrete support columns and rebuild based on the original platform.


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