DraftKings to open new office in southwest Las Vegas

DraftKings, the Boston-based online sports betting giant, is expanding its Las Vegas footprint with plans to unfastened a caller bureau successful the vale that includes its ain casino pit, a high-tech putting greenish and more.

DraftKings’ caller bureau volition unfastened successful aboriginal 2022 astatine at UnCommons successful southwest Las Vegas and the institution expects to yet employment much than 1,000 workers astatine the location. The Las Vegas bureau volition beryllium the company’s second-largest successful the U.S. and volition intimately exemplary its Boston headquarter.

Plans for the 90,000-square-foot abstraction see a customized casino grooming pit, an interactive putt-view putting greenish and different amenities similar onsite manicures, pedicures and haircuts.

“Our caller bureau abstraction and Las Vegas enlargement further exemplifies DraftKings’ concern successful its employees and the aboriginal of the company, arsenic good arsenic the section community,” Matt Kalish, DraftKings co-founder and president North America, said successful a statement. “Our extremity is to make different world-class workplace situation that volition foster DraftKings’ innovation, further bolster our section presence, and deepen assemblage involvement. With these lofty aspirations, we were thrilled to observe that UnCommons mirrors these precocious standards.”

The $400-million, 40-acre UnCommons, presently nether operation adjacent the 215 Beltway and Durango Drive, is projected to yet person much than 500,000 quadrate feet of bureau abstraction and much than 800 residential units.

DraftKings was founded successful 2012 and made its people arsenic 1 of the biggest forces successful regular phantasy sports. The institution opened its archetypal bureau successful Las Vegas successful January 2020 and has rapidly moved to grow its beingness successful town.

The institution signed a multiyear statement to beryllium a superior sponsor of UNLV’s Center for Gaming Innovation wrong the university’s International Gaming Institute, a woody that included the opening of a Draftkings Gaming Innovation Studio connected campus. In March, the institution reached an statement to bargain VSiN, a sports betting broadcasting institution based successful Las Vegas and headed by longtime broadcaster Brent Musburger.

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