Ground will be broken later this spring for the 38,000-square-foot expansion at Harrah’s Hoosier Park Racing & Casino in Anderson, Indiana, according to officials at parent company Caesars Entertainment.
The $34 million project could be completed in 13 to 15 months. Trent McIntosh, senior vice president and general manager at Hoosier Park, said, “We’re super excited about this project. The additional restaurant and bar facilities will make Hoosier Park a better entity in Anderson.” The expansion will add 100 slot machines and 25 new table games.
The racino was allowed to add live dealers at table games only three months before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, and the venue was forced to close until June 2020. Capacity restrictions and health and safety protocols remained in place for most of 2021. But McIntosh said revenue from general casino operations and table games have started to rebound.
He said, “We walk into ’22 with really a clean slate to have a year without any of the major restrictions in place, and we’ve continued to grow table games, really, since March of ’21. It’s been a continually growing piece of the business. I do feel like in 2022, we are positioned to have maybe the best year this property’s ever had.”
McIntosh said the venue recently presented its first live concert in nearly two years. “Entertainment is a tricky business still, to this moment, but we have gotten back into the entertainment business”
