Bullhead City, AZ., The Grey Ghost

[@daybird2]

It is indeed an eyesore that I have to look at everyday.

[@teamfahey]

Nice work Brad. Camera action and shots are very nice, like the music too.

[@lowercherty]

Since 1989 there are Indian casinos every 100 miles or less in my state and no more charter flights to Laughlin.

[@TheDustysix]

I am sure a willing EOD Team could use the practice. 820th Red Horse at Nellis. Perfect for an Exercise.

[@bradhirter8619]

A casino. I believe it was going to called the Emerald River Casino, I could be wrong though.

[@rozerosenau3619]

And golf course I worked on the golf course 1989 and the course closed December 1990

[@bradhirter8619]

We still can. Someone here also has a DJI in this area. They were flying as well.

[@arttaggerr2233]

Boomtown in Bullhead City, Arizona! Investment COMMERCIAL property in Old Bullhead, straight across the river from the Golden Nugget Casino and Harrahs Casino in Laughlin, Nevada, IS DIRT CHEAP. Jet ski businesses want to spread out. They need commercial property to store their jet skies. Better buy now before they grab everything up! The jet skies businesses are making BIG BUCKS and can afford to pay for more Commercial expansion in OLD BULLHEAD.

[@bradhirter8619]

Emerald River, a 6,000-room resort complex, was planned by Las Vegas-based John H. Midby & Associates, one of Laughlin's early developers and a major player in the area. Today the first-phase tower of Emerald River is a concrete skeleton on the banks of the Colorado, around the bend from the main cluster of casinos. The demise of the junk bond market and a shaky financial market have left Midby and other developers with few financing options and no money to complete ambitious projects.

[@noahzeller4577]

Hard to imagine they haven't try to use it for anything else it would be perfect for paint ball or an air soft arena.

[@michaelbottai9983]

Liability on this structure without any safety barriers would prevent any kind of commercial use.

[@MeAgain13]

Is this the one that is known as the electrical facility? It's hard to tell from the video if it's something I haven't seen....thank you :-)

[@azaerialdrone3326]

It was going to be the Emerald Hotel and Casino.

[@MeAgain13]

Ahhhh. Thank you. My geography is a little off because I haven't been down there in a while. Beautiful video though!

[@azaerialdrone3326]

Nice.

[@MS-sm4ly]

me and my friends just went there and climbed it theres stairs it cool

[@hopelaxton6799]

I've been i. Here I live by it

[@BigChunks420]

I was just up there

[@ethanmartin4611]

Who knows the finger rock

[@AT_Muscle]

what was it supposed to be

[@michaelbottai9983]

if memory serves, the contractor poured concrete before sign off on electrical. Too costly to tear out concrete at the time. Now the rebar and structural integrity of steel won't/can't pass any kind of inspection. Developer shut everything down.

[@dwightstjohn6927]

interesting that in Laughlins' desert environment technically you'd have little problem with structural steel degrading, unlike where I am up the west, wet coast. Even then, no Engineer or Firm wants to sign off on a lifetime of liability, though you could do it. it wouldn't fail in it's expected lifetime, but you'd have to do something different with it, like when Long Beach back in the sixties had their hotels on the beach strip failing inspection, so they "condo'd" the buidlings to seniors as small rooms, and sold the buildings as private residences.

[@raceking1324]

YOU COULD OF CALLED ME WE COULD OF DONE IT TOGETHER MAN GOOD JOB

[@brandanmaza2413]

It's on the Laughlin side though

[@dwightstjohn6927]

interesting how everything is so connected. In BC Canada when the credit crunch hit in 2007 all concrete high-rise stopped..........in five days. It took eight months to arrange alternate financing (thank you, New York, you assholes) from the outfits that CREATED the problem, to get the hotels and condos finished. We went from 115 employees to 15 in five months, never to return.

[@videotimesss1]

They should finish it, or tear it down!

[@bradhirter8619]

I believe it has been exposed to the elements to long. I do wouldn't think it could be salvaged.

[@motor62500]

dang, glad I was not my money waisted....