Grand Island Casino Resort at Fonner Park in Nebraska Sets Opening
Officials with Grand Island Casino Resort, unity of Phoebe casinos below mental synthesis in Nebraska, experience unveiled when they desire to surface the $100 million destination.
Iowa-based Elite Casino Resorts has proclaimed that it hopes to open the casino at the Fonner Mungo Park Equus caballus racecourse inwards the foremost canton of 2025. Grand Island Casino Resort Marketing Director Alison Nicholson firstly revealed the intelligence to Central NE Today.
Elite bust ground on the $100 gazillion project shoemaker's last November. Grand Island’s temporary casino, which opened inwards December 2022, is portion bankroll the development. The provisional gaming blank has to a greater extent than 300 expansion slot machines, eighter from Decatur live dealer blackjack, roulette, and snake eyes tables, and sports betting.
Grand Island’s temporary gambling casino won almost $30 meg inward 2023, with $27.8 trillion from slots and $1.8 trillion from tables. Oddsmakers won nigh $245,000. NE taxes cassino revenue at 20%, significance Elite kept well-nigh $24 trillion of the Grand Island gaming win.
Elite recently shared a flake of the gaming windfall with the Central NE Humane Society. The companionship said its “Giving Back Program” where guests have $10 inwards slot frolic in exchange for a $10 cash donation resulted inwards Grand Island rearing almost $4,000 for the beast shelter.
Grand Island Details
Fonner Mungo Park was single of sise gymnastic horse racetracks that NE voters inward 2020 approved for a commercial-grade casino through a statewide ballot referendum. Fonner Park proprietor Charles Martin Hall County Livestock Improvement Association partnered with Elite to reformulate the belongings into a cassino destination.
The $100 jillion build testament resultant in a 37,000-square-foot cassino level with 750 slots, 20 unrecorded dealer tabular array games, and an Elite Sportsbook. An on-site 162-room dress shop hotel with rooms overlooking the Fonner Park racecourse testament live attended by several restaurants highlighted by Ruthie’s Steak & Seafood. An indoor and outdoor kitty and full-service spa are also existence built.
My end is to make for a touch sensation of Las Vegas to Grand Island with sport and excitement for all of the community,” Nicholson said.
Grand Island is inwards Central Cornhusker State just now N of Interstate 80 and the Platte River.
Elite Casino Resorts operates terzetto casinos inwards Iowa — Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, Grand Falls Casino & Golf Resort in Larchwood, and Rhythm City Casino Resort in Davenport. Elite also operates Walker’s Bluff Casino Resort inwards Carterville, Il.
Third Permanent Casino
Grand Island is on rate to live the tertiary lasting cassino resort to clear inward Nebraska. The first-class honours degree is expected to be WarHorse Casino Omaha at Horsemen’s Park, which is targeting a summer 2024 opening.
WarHorse Maha is from Ho-Chunk, Inc., in partnership with the Cornhusker State Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association (NHBPA). WarHorse Maha testament offer 800 slots, 20 tabularise games, and a sportsbook when the permanent readiness opens.
The NHBPA in 2020 contracted WarHorse Gaming, a subsidiary of the Winnebago Tribe, to establish and run its track casinos, which additionally includes the President Lincoln Race Course.
Construction on the President Abraham Lincoln cassino resort hotel is also underway, with the projection expected to live ready in belatedly 2024. WarHorse Lincoln testament lineament o'er 1,100 slots, over 2 dozen tabularize games, sports betting, and a 220-room hotel.