The Rose Gaming Resort is a roughly $400 trillion labor existence built inwards Northern Old Dominion in the small townspeople of Dumfries.
The Colonial Downs Group send off is I of the largest investments to of all time come to Dumfries, but an regular larger task is maybe inward the works nearby. ESPN reported this hebdomad that the NFL WA Commanders football game team up has paid more than $100 million for close to 200 acres of dry land inward Prince William County, which is also home to Dumfries.
The NFL team’s shore purchase is said to live inwards Woodbridge to a lesser extent than 10 miles from where The Rose is beingness reinforced along I-95. Though squad reps feature not publicly discussed the acreage acquisition, rumors are swirling that Woodbridge is where Commanders possessor Dan Snyder wants to build the franchise’s futurity home.
The ESPN report did not single come out the precise location of the property, but said it’s “right turned an leave on I-95 inward Woodbridge.”
Coming Up Roses
Virginia legalized Las Vegas-style casinos with slot machines, tabularise games, and sports betting in 2020. But The Rose won’t follow one such venue.
Virginia’s cassino invoice only if allowed quintuplet economically struggling cities to deliberate a commercial casino. Dumfries did not qualify. Instead, Virginia’s 2018 legalisation of historical gymnastic horse racing (HHR) is refueling the $400 billion development.
HHR terminals look, sound, and single-valued function like one-armed bandit machines. But instead of using random figure generators to find out when a twirl wins, HHR machines utilize previously run for gymnastic horse races and associated parimutuel betting lines to ascertain outcomes.
Players typically pickax a “quick bet” alternative that provides them with the favourite and shortest odds. The horses, track, date, and other paint identifying entropy are concealed.
The Rose is beingness reinforced on what was previously the Potomac Landfill. The resort hotel is to feature a 305-room, six-story hotel, octet restaurants and bars, group discussion and group meeting space, and a “casino” level with 1,800 HHR terminals.
In 2018, the Colonial Downs Group, then a marijuana cigarette strive from Chicago-based Revolutionary Racing and Los Angeles-based Peninsula Pacific Ocean Entertainment (P2E), convinced say lawmakers to decriminalize HHR. In exchange, the chemical group in agreement(p) to reopen the Colonial Downs Racetrack in New Rockwell Kent and take unrecorded racing.
Part of the country understanding with Colonial Downs Group additionally allowed the fellowship to build off-track HHR parlors. Those artificial satellite facilities are today known as Rosie’s Gaming Emporiums. Rosie’s has HHR locations in New Kent, Vinton, Richmond, Hampton, and Collinsville. a temporary Rosie’s inwards Dumfries has also opened.
P2E later bought come out Revolutionary’s bet in the Colonial Downs Group for an unrevealed sum.
Coming Attraction
The Rose Gaming Resort is the Colonial Downs Group’s largest investment to date. The companion is betting bounteous on drafting insurance premium players from DC and Northern Virginia’s moneyed towns to Dumfries to gamble, dine, and relax.
An NFL stadium, of course, would be most welcomed among Colonial Downs officials. Bringing more than 60,000 fans on at to the lowest degree eighter Sundays a twelvemonth to within 10 miles of The Rose would of course benefit the resort.
The NFL stadium prospects are a giving win for Winston S. Churchill Downs Inc., which in agreement(p) inward February to acquire most P2E assets, including its ownership inward the Colonial Downs Group, for almost $2.5 billion. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Downs CEO Bill Carstanjen said the acquisition mostly has to make with the company’s belief that horse racing is exercise set for a resurgence inward the US.