Caesars Entertainment unveils renderings for $500M Virginia resort

Caesars Entertainment connected Thursday unveiled authoritative renderings for a caller $500 cardinal edifice that is planned to unfastened successful Danville, Virginia.

Caesars Virginia is expected to interruption crushed earlier the extremity of 2021 and it is slated to unfastened successful precocious 2023, according to the company.

“Caesars Virginia volition beryllium an economical operator for the region, some arsenic a tourer and amusement gully and done the much than a 1000 good-paying jobs the edifice volition create,” Anthony Carano, president and main operating serviceman of Caesars Entertainment, said successful a statement. “The radical of Danville person entrusted america to physique a world-class resort, and we look guardant to proving that spot was good founded with an unthinkable edifice worthy of the iconic Caesars brand.”

In 2020, voters successful Danville overwhelmingly voted to let for casino gambling, a referendum that was backed by Caesars. Three different Virginia cities that had aligned with casino partners besides saw voters o.k. of akin measures past year, including Bristol (aligned with Hard Rock International), Portsmouth (Rush Street Gaming), and Norfolk (Pamunkey Indian Tribe).

“Over the people of the past 2 years, myself, City Council and unit person taken large attraction to make plans, alongside residents and Caesars Entertainment, to make a edifice that volition positively interaction the assemblage done caller taxation revenue, jobs, concern opportunities with section businesses and tourism dollars,” Danville Mayor Alonzo Jones, who besides served arsenic a co-chair connected the Caesars for Danville run committee, said successful a statement.

The $500 cardinal terms tag is $100 cardinal much than initially anticipated successful the improvement statement for the resort. Once completed, the casino is planned to person 500 rooms, slots and array games, a sportsbook, a 2,500-seat theatre and 40,000 quadrate feet of normal and gathering space.

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