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Hollywood Casino is a brand owned by Penn National Gaming from its acquisition of Hollywood Casino Corp. It may refer to: Hollywood Casino Aurora – Aurora, Illinois;
Hollywood Casino Corp. was a gaming company based in Dallas, Texas.It was acquired in 2003 by Penn National Gaming for $328 million plus $360 million in assumed debt. [1]In the early 1990s, as legalized gambling spread to new states, the Pratts, owners of Sands Atlantic City, established Hollywood Casino Corp. to develop new casinos under the Hollywood Casino name. [2]
Hollywood Casino St. Louis is a casino in Maryland Heights, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. It is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn Entertainment . The casino has 120,000 sq ft (11,000 m 2 ) of gaming space, with 2,180 slot machines and 91 table games.
Hollywood Casino Aurora opened in 1993 as Hollywood Casino Corp.'s first riverboat casino. [2] The casino's ownership transferred to Penn National Gaming (now Penn Entertainment) after its acquisition of Hollywood Casino Corp. in 2003. [3] Two riverboats were first used, replaced by a 70,000 square feet floating, moored, half-circle structure ...
[1] [2] The casino is part of the Hollywood Park development which also features SoFi Stadium, home to the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League, and will later include multiple housing, business parks, luxury hotels, a movie theatre, and an open-air shopping center. It was the first building of the complex ...
In June 2009, Penn National unveiled a much larger riverboat with a passenger capacity of nearly 9,000 guests and 4,400 gaming positions. The new boat also marked the changeover from the Argosy name to Penn National's primary brand, Hollywood Casino. The new boat also features a rebranded World Poker Tour poker room. [2] [3]
Hollywood Casino Toledo, developed and operated by Penn National Gaming (now Penn Entertainment), opened on May 29, followed by Hollywood Casino Columbus, which opened on October 8, 2012. [ 3 ] Gross casino revenues will be taxed at 33 percent, one of the highest rates in the nation for a resort casino with this level of investment.
The first phase of opening was slated for a June 2009 date; however, this was later slated to sometime later in the year. [23] In addition, the Cordish Corporation threatened to end their partnership due to a local Kansas City proposed law banning indoor smoking, but they later backtracked the threat; [24] the city later gave exemptions to the casino for smoking. [25]