Boyd Gaming Corp. has hired a firm with a history of demolishing casinos to tear down a shuttered Las Vegas hotel, records show.

The Clark County Building Department on Oct. 20 issued a commercial demolition permit, valued at $7.5 million, for the Boyd-owned Eastside Cannery on Boulder Highway, records show.

Las Vegas Demolition is listed on the permit as the contractor. The firm, owned by brothers Joe and Sal Catania, tore down Fiesta Rancho, Fiesta Henderson and Texas Station, among other projects listed on its website.

Those three properties were owned by Station Casinos and, like Eastside Cannery, never reopened from the pandemic shutdowns.

Las Vegas Demolition declined to comment for this story.

Boyd spokesman David Strow said Friday that there is “not sufficient market demand to

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