- A on line casino in Petersburg will open later this month
- Cordish Firms and Bruce Smith Enterprise are behind the Dwell! On line casino Virginia undertaking
Virginians will quickly have a handful of casinos to select from when a fifth slots and desk video games location opens later this month.
Cordish Firms will open its pavilion tent gaming construction in Petersburg later this month. The short-term gaming facility of the under-construction Dwell! On line casino & Resort Virginia will provide about 900 slots and three dozen desk video games. (Picture: The Cordish Firms)
Baltimore-based Cordish Firms secured privileges to function a on line casino in Virginia via a November 2024 referendum, the place Petersburg voters strongly backed its plans to construct a $600 million resort there known as Dwell! On line casino & Resort Virginia. Greater than eight in 10 voters signed off on the undertaking, which is to incorporate subsequent mixed-use growth phases.
Virginia’s gaming legislation permits licensed tasks to function a short lived on line casino throughout development of the everlasting resort. Subsequent week, Cordish says it would open a provisional on line casino in Petersburg.
Petersburg On line casino
On Thursday, January 22, Dwell! On line casino Virginia will open its doorways with greater than 900 slot machines and 30 live-dealer desk video games. The on line casino will characteristic a full bar and a quick-service restaurant known as Luckies. Free parking is offered on the pavilion tent situated at 301 Wagner Street.
The short-term Dwell! On line casino Virginia was initially slated to open on the finish of 2025, however Cordish introduced a delay in November resulting from unspecified causes.
It’s been an extended, laborious month and a half of labor to get it to the place it’s as we speak. It’s a really true brick-and-mortar sort of really feel versus a tent. You gained’t even know you’re within the tent except you’re trying up on the ceiling,” Joshua Willet, the director of slots and visitor providers at Dwell! On line casino & Resort Virginia, advised 12 On Your Aspect information.
The on line casino will maintain a mushy opening on January 20, the place preregistered company can gamble from midday till 8 pm. Dwell! will donate all cash raised throughout the occasion to Feed Extra, a Central Virginia meals financial institution, and the John Randolph Basis, a Tri-Cities group devoted to constructing wholesome communities. Registration for the charity day is here.
Cordish is constructing the Petersburg on line casino with NFL Corridor of Famer Bruce Smith and his actual property growth firm.
Cordish and Bruce Smith Enterprise say the $600 million everlasting on line casino will embody 1,600 slots, 60 desk video games, and a sportsbook. The resort plan requires a 200-room lodge with eight eating places and bars, a pool complicated, a health heart, conference services, and a 4,000-seat theater.
The everlasting Dwell! On line casino & Resort Virginia is anticipated to open late subsequent 12 months.
Virginia Casinos
With the forthcoming opening of Dwell! On line casino Virginia, the commonwealth can be dwelling to 5 bodily casinos with slots and tables. The others are three everlasting casinos: Rivers On line casino Portsmouth, Exhausting Rock Resort & On line casino Bristol, and Caesars Virginia in Danville. A brief on line casino in Norfolk opened in November.
Virginia is moreover dwelling to slot-like historic horse racing (HHR) machines. Such gaming may be discovered at The Rose Gaming Resort in Dumfries, the Colonial Downs Racetrack in New Kent, and Rosie’s Gaming Emporium off-track betting areas.
