The oldest continually licensed casino in the U.S. The Cal Neva in Lake Tahoe is getting some synthetic surgery, like most good star that is old. The main makeover begins this week, and will close the historic property down for over a year because it undergoes a facelift that is multimillion-dollar.

Reviving Historic Property

Best-known for being when owned by celebrated singer Frank Sinatra, the house’s 6,000-square-foot casino and 10-story, 219-room hotel can get the renovations in a work to bring it back in to its former excitement and boost business, according to Robert Radovan, co-owner of Criswell-Radovan. Radovan’s Napa Valley, Calif.-based development business purchased the Cal Neva earlier this spring, utilizing the eyesight of getting it right back on its legs.

‘Our objective is always to bring it back to its former glory and to make it exactly what it had been like in Sinatra’s time,’ Radovan told the Associated Press. ‘It has such great heart and character, and it’s really needed this redo for many decades.’

The thing that was once the shining star of the Hollywood jet set has fallen into disrepair, blamed on both the recession that’s affected many casinos, as well as the obvious range of more opulent and accessible video gaming homes, in Reno, Las Vegas and (more…)