Officials of Pittsburgh’s Rivers Casino say they hope to break ground this summer on a hotel to be built adjacent to its casino, located on the Allegheny River in what is known as the North Shore district.
The hotel would be the fifth attached to a Pennsylvania casino, after Mount Airy Casino, Mohegan Sun Pocono, Lady Luck Nemacolin and Rivers’ Pittsburgh-area rival, The Meadows, which is benefiting from a third-party hotel built next door and attached to the casino via a skywalk. Live!, the second Philadelphia casino, will utilize a converted existing hotel to open as a hotel-casino.
“The design is finished,” Rivers General Manager Craig Clark told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “We hope to move forward soon.”
The Rivers Hotel will be adjacent to the casino, and between the casino and the Carnegie Science Center. Clark told the newspaper the building will be situated to minimize obstruction of guests’ view of the Ohio River beyond the confluence of Pittsburgh’s three rivers.
According to the article, the casino will request a May hearing before the Pittsburgh Planning Commission, and pending approval, construction of the 214-room hotel would take around 16 months. The hotel is expected to create 1,400 construction jobs and 105 permanent jobs.
