Parx Casino Pennsylvania Takes Baby Steps Towards Hotel
Parx Casino inward Bensalem, Pa., some 10 air miles northerly of Philadelphia, has pledged to establish an on-site hotel since the holding rebranded from City of Brotherly Love Park Casino and Racetrack in tardily 2009. Thomas More than a decade later, Pennsylvania’s top-grossing cassino still does non offering guests lodging.
Pennsylvania legalized one-armed bandit machines inwards 2004 through its Race Horse Development and Gaming Act. The City of Brotherly Love Park Racetrack brought slots to the attribute inward late 2006 and rebranded to include “casino” in its name.
Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment, the parent society of the racino, once again renamed the dimension inward later(a) 2009 after the nation legalized table games. The gaming enlargement prompted Greenwood into investment $250 meg to build a unexampled standalone casino neighboring(a) to the racetrack. The cassino opened as Parx inwards December of that year.
Parx has since turn Pennsylvania’s richest casino. In 2021, the attribute generated receipts gaming revenue (GGR) of to a greater extent than $617 million, including $409.4 gazillion from slots and $207.7 million from tables. Both verticals led the way among the state’s 16 land-based casinos.
Hotel Moving Forward
In applying for approval with the Keystone State Gaming Control Board inward 2007 to build and open Parx, Greenwood told the land that its original project included the eventual building of a hotel. This week, Parx Casino finally inched closer to making that a reality.
The casino’s hotel developing plans have been accepted by the Bensalem Township Planning Commission, which is the foremost regulatory stone's throw inwards existence allowed to gaolbreak ground. Local officials say the casino must noneffervescent undergo the township’s ground developing outgrowth before receiving all of the necessary mental synthesis approvals.
The hotel design received by the township includes a 15-story body structure sitting on more or less half dozen acres of land. The hotel is beingness targeted in the south of the Equus caballus racecourse close its longer chute.
The edifice plan, as reviewed past the Bucks County Courier Times, consists of nearly 72,000 lame feet of indoor space. While the design does not set the figure of guestrooms, the cast ambit details a dance palace and case lawn among its amenities.
Unlike inwards many other commercial message gaming states that require for each one gambling casino to include an on-site hotel, Pennsylvania’s gaming laws make non follow with such a lodging requirement. However, of the state’s 13 full-scale Category 2 casinos, only ii — Parx and Presque Isle Downs & Casino — perform non bid on-location lodging.
Parx Expansion
Parx Casino isn’t only when possibly expanding its flagship Pennsylvania property. The society is additionally investment inward a Category 4 orbiter casino location inward Shippensburg Township.
Greenwood is spending almost $65 trillion to transubstantiate a former Lowe’s into a cassino with upward to 750 slot machines, 30 tabulate games, and a sportsbook. Greenwood won the state’s Category 4 auction off around in 2018 with a winning tender of $8.111 million.
Parx Casino Shippensburg is a comparatively chinchy investment among the Phoebe approved artificial satellite facilities inwards Pennsylvania. William Penn Entertainment — formerly Penn National Gaming until this hebdomad — spent more than $120 zillion on its Hollywood York mini-casino alone.