Dwell! On line casino Lodge Louisiana in Bossier Metropolis Proclaims Opening
Dwell! On line casino & Lodge Louisiana will open in February 2025.
Slot machines are loaded in at Dwell! On line casino & Lodge Louisiana in December 2024. The resort in Bossier Metropolis is ready to open in February 2025. (Picture: The Cordish Corporations)
The Cordish Corporations introduced on Friday that its latest on line casino resort will open in lower than two months in Bossier Metropolis, LA. Dwell! Louisiana, a greater than $270 million funding, will activate its 1,000 slot machines and get playing cards within the air on its 40 stay supplier desk video games on Feb. 13, 2025.
The grand opening comes the day earlier than Valentine’s. Baltimore-based Cordish is betting massive that Louisianans and gamblers from throughout the nation will rapidly fall in love with Dwell! Louisiana.
We couldn’t be extra thrilled to announce our grand opening date. We’re so able to go Dwell! in 2025 and ship this top-tier gaming and leisure expertise that’s unmatched by the rest within the four-state area,” mentioned John Chaszar, government vp and normal supervisor of Dwell! On line casino & Lodge Louisiana.
“Dwell! is actually a one-of-a-kind vacation spot, providing one thing for everybody — whether or not you’re a sports activities fan, a foodie, a gaming fanatic, or simply searching for an unforgettable evening out, you’ll discover all of it below one roof,” Chaszar added.
Resort Particulars
Cordish acquired the shuttered Diamond Jacks resort and riverboat in April 2023 for an undisclosed sum. The vendor was Basis Gaming, which had bought the property from Peninsula Pacific Leisure a 12 months earlier.
Basis folded on its plans to speculate $200 million into renovating the dilapidated property and bought it to Cordish.
Cordish, which runs three casinos in Maryland and Pennsylvania, is amid an growth part. Together with Louisiana, the corporate is transferring ahead with a on line casino resort in Virginia’s Petersburg.
Within the Bayou State, Cordish sunk the previous Diamond Jacks riverboat in favor of a brand new brick-and-mortar on line casino. The 47K-square-foot gaming house, which, together with slots and desk video games has a high-limit room and a sportsbook, is related to the 12-story resort that has 549 guestrooms and suites.
The resort underwent a whole renovation and improve. A resort-style pool and health middle are among the many new resort facilities.
Room charges for Dwell! Louisiana’s opening weekend begin at $399 an evening. After taxes and a “resort companies price” of $15 an evening plus tax, a two-night keep involves $957.27.
Dwell! Louisiana’s Occasion Middle has 25K sq. ft of customizable services. The vacation spot moreover has 30K sq. ft of eating and leisure, plus a 31-site RV park with concrete pads and full hookups.
Eating places set to open in February embody Sports activities & Social, Dwell!’s sports activities bar and restaurant, Luk Foo, an Asian-themed restaurant with culinary dishes impressed by Vietnam, Japan, Korea, and China, and The Prime Rib, a high quality eating expertise highlighted by chops and seafood.
Bossier Metropolis Turnaround?
In the course of the 2024 fiscal 12 months that ran from July 1, 2023, by way of June 30, 2024, the 5 casinos within the Bossier Metropolis/Shreveport market mixed to generate gross gaming income (GGR) of roughly $517.7 million. That marked a 4.4% decline from the $541.5 million the casinos received in FY2023.
Bossier Metropolis and Shreveport casinos have been on a decline for a number of years.
In FY2022, Bossier/Shreveport GGR totaled $584.5 million. In pre-pandemic 2019, on line casino win topped $626.4 million. Diamond Jacks was nonetheless in operation on the time, although its FY2019 GGR amounted to simply $35.1 million.
Within the 2016 fiscal 12 months, Bossier/Shreveport casinos received nearly $667 million.
