Caesars’ used furniture destined for Harvey victims, Habitat for Humanity

Caesars Entertainment is donating hundreds of pieces of used furniture from the Flamingo and Bally’s Las Vegas to victims of Hurricane Harvey and to a local Habitat for Humanity store.

Earlier this week, workers from the Interstate Hotel Installation group (which also donated its time) began loading the first of several trucks that will take the furniture to a warehouse in Houston, where 125 families, whose homes were gutted by the recent storm, can get the items they need.

According to a Caesars spokesperson, the company will remodel 275 rooms on the 23rd through 51st floors of the Flamingo, one floor at a time until this phase of the project is done in April.

Each week over the next five weeks, two tractor-trailers filled with furniture from the rooms will leave the loading dock at the Flamingo for Houston.

Sherri Pucci, general manager of the Flamingo and Linq, said the donations were a way to help the people in Houston while also meeting the company’s environmental goals.

“We have a commitment to go green,” she said. “We were trying to think about how we could repurpose the furniture. This idea of getting it to victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston was one of the ways we are trying to address that commitment.”

Used Caesars hotel furniture is also heading to the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity, which will sell the furniture to raise money for the mission of providing homes to low-income families in Las Vegas.

The group had to close a smaller store and open a new one at the Boulevard mall to accommodate the furniture, which is coming from the remodel of Bally’s Indigo Tower.

“We’ll start taking deliveries on Nov. 6,” Habitat’s local CEO Douglas Coombs said. “We’re going to be getting 100 tractor-trailers of furniture over a period of time. Our stores are designed to take the generous donations we receive from both corporations and the community at large and sell them to help us to reduce cost for builds we do.”

thomas.moore@gmgvegas. com / 702-513-2612 / @thdomo

Pieces of furniture await being loaded onto a truck and driven to Houston, to be donated to victims of Hurricane Harvey.