“When Isle of Capri shut down amid the COVID-19 panic, we had no idea it wouldn’t reopen again for more than two years,” Favre said in a news release. The casino had closed earlier because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The planned $112.7 million land casino had been scheduled to open this past May. The board had approved a move from the permanently moored riverboat to land in December 2019 - the first such approval in the state. The new casino will include more than 60,000 square feet of gambling space, compared to the boat’s 45,000 square feet, The Advocate reported.

Money set aside to renovate the older hotel can now be used to improve the new tower hotel, said Jeff Favre, Isle of Capri general manager.

(AP) - A southwest Louisiana riverboat casino that was damaged by a hurricane last year will reopen on land next year.Ĭonstruction of a new Horseshoe Casino should be complete next fall in Lake Charles, where Hurricane Laura damaged the construction site and pushed the Isle of Capri riverboat casino under a bridge, news agencies reported.Īmong other things, the Louisiana Gaming Control Board agreed last week that Caesars Entertainment could demolish an older hotel at the site because of major hurricane damage, The American Press reported.

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