Casino and Hotel will open in South Philadelphia with several RSVP-only preview days starting on Jan. The grand opening for the public is scheduled for Feb.
- Open 24/7/365, the property features more than 150 live action table games; approximately 2,200 slot machines; and a High Limit room.
- Casino & Hotel Philadelphia will be developed, owned and managed by Stadium Casino RE, LLC, an affiliate of The Cordish Companies, the premier developer of Live! Dining, entertainment, gaming.
- The casino features more than 2,100 slot machines and 150 live-action table games equipped with plexiglass dividers. There is a dedicated 29-table poker room that Billhimer said is 'as nice as any.
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The long-awaiting Live! Casino and Hotel Philadelphia is set to open its doors in South Philly. Finishing touches are still taking place but after eight years, the wait is over for Live! Casino and Hotel Philadelphia. It’s the newest addition to the stadium district in South Philly.
“This has been a long time coming, hasn’t it? That we’ve been talking about the Live! project here in Philadelphia,” Robert Norton of Cordish Gaming said. “Everything that we do is done with a flair for doing it like a family.”
RELATED: COVID In Philadelphia: Restaurants To Be Allowed To Raise Indoor Capacity To 50% If They Pass Air Quality TestAnd they will welcome you like a family.
The casino and hotel is a massive 510,000 square feet and costs nearly $700 million to build. Once fully operational the casino will employ over 2,000 people, and they’re still hiring.
The 12-story attached hotel has over 200 rooms with views of all of South Philadelphia, the Philadelphia skyline, and close-up views of Citizens Bank Park.
However, the pandemic is at the top of their minds.
“Our first priority is to make everybody as safe and comfortable as they can be, so they can enjoy and have a good time,” Norton said.
RELATED: Bucks County School Bus Driver, John Michael Evans, Pleads Guilty To Sexually Abusing 2 Teen BoysCOVID precautions are in place. Capacity will be limited per city and state guidelines. Also, acrylic barriers surround gaming tables, and an air filtration system exchanges the air in the building up to 12 times an hour. When at the slot machines social distancing is going high tech.
“When you sit down on your favorite machine, as soon as you start playing it shuts down the machines at either side of you,” Norton said.
The casino opens to the general public on Tuesday.
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MORE: LeSean McCoy, Former Philadelphia Eagles Running Back, Wins Second Consecutive Super Bowl Without Playing In Either GameHANOVER, Md. (WJZ) — Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland in Anne Arundel County will start vaccinating people under Maryland’s Phase 1B COVID-19 vaccination rollout Tuesday.
The hotel’s event center will serve as a vaccination clinic for several months and vaccinate around 100 people per hour at four designated stations, the hotel chain said in a press release.
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Marylanders under this next phase can get vaccinated through an appointment only Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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An Anne Arundel County appointed healthcare team will run the clinic as part of the county’s rollout plan. Learn more from the county here.
“Do not come here to get a vaccine if you’re not registered,” said Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman. “Please be patient. There are hundreds of thousands of county residents that need to get vaccinated, and we have to do this in an organized and orderly way, we have to wait our turn.”
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