However, he believed the longer the hotel-casino remained closed, “the less chance there was that it would ever reopen.” Tim Brooks, who operates the Emerald Island and Rainbow Club casinos on Water Street, said he didn’t have an interest in buying Fiesta Henderson. “I think they just kind of just wrote it off.” “They weren’t receptive,” recalled DeSimone, who operates Railroad Pass on U.S. Henderson casino owner Joe DeSimone reached out to Red Rock Resorts last year to see if the company was interested in selling the closed Fiesta Henderson.
