Live! Casino & Hotel Philadelphia noted its 2nd day of remembrance this week.
Developed and opened past The Cordish Companies at a cost of $700 million, the structured resort hotel inward the city’s Stadium District was billed as an economic stimulator and neighborhood rehabilitator. The belongings is staying avowedly to its word.
Live! Philadelphia’s 510,000-square-foot coordination compound with more than 2,000 one-armed bandit machines, 140 unrecorded dealer tabulate games, 29-table stove poker room, and FanDuel Sportsbook has been a resounding success, Cordish officials said.
Live! Philly officially opened on Feb. 4, 2021. The cassino has an on-site hotel with 208 guestrooms, a change of dining and entertainment options, an event middle with 15,000 square toes feet of customizable space, and a multilevel parking body structure attached to the resort.
According to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, Live! Casino Philadelphia generated brick-and-mortar gross gaming revenue of well-nigh $228.3 million inwards 2022. That includes income from the casino’s slots, tables, and sportsbook. Live!’s online cassino program won another $33.1 million.
While Cordish continues to operate the City of Brotherly Love casino, the Baltimore-based gaming and hospitality firm sold the resort hotel inwards March 2022. The emptor was Gaming & Leisure Properties, Inc., the real landed estate investment funds combine owned past William Penn Entertainment.
Community Engagement
Cordish’s gambling casino license with the res publica included a $15 million community of interests benefit. The accompany pledged to enthrone that amount o'er the first 10 years of its existence inward South Philly.
Cordish reps during the two-year anniversary event this calendar week announced the in style(p) biotic community donation — a $750K donation toward overhauling the Murphy Recreation Center. The rough 5-acre commons features a playground, an outdoor pool, a basketball court, and ii baseball game fields. The green also has an indoor gymnasium.
While the park sounds well(p) on paper, the installation is inward dire want of mending and renovation. The composite is undergoing a rebuild led past the metropolis with financial support from community partners similar Live! Casino.
Murphy Rec Center is a vital hub for the community,” said Cordish Principal John the Divine Cordish. “We go for this part will wallop the residents for generations to come.”
City officials say kids in South Philly often hold to journey to the suburbs to run their “home” games for football, baseball, and association football because their fields in the city are unplayable.
“We hold a theatre of operations crisis,” said Philadelphia Rosa Parks and Recreation Commissioner Kathryn Ott Lovell. “We experience that youth people … make to trip to the suburbs, otherwise they risk of infection forfeiting their games because our fields are unplayable. This gift will convert that for the offspring people in South Philadelphia.”
With Cordish’s $750K investment into the Murphy Rec Center, the cassino has now precondition $2.3 one thousand thousand to local initiatives through and through its foremost ii years inward business.
Super Bowl Party
Live! Casino has often to celebrate inwards Philly. Along with its anniversary, the cassino testament welcome thousands of guests this weekend for Super Bowl LVII with the city’s honey Eagles trying for their secondment Vince Lombardi Trophy inwards fin years.
The gambling casino says it’s turn the full dimension into a “Big Game Watch Party” this Sunday.
My Live! Rewards members can call in any promotional kiosk to plectrum who they cerebrate will win the swelled game. If their team up wins, they’ll get a share of $5,700 inward free people slot play. Super Bowl LVII is the 57th Super Bowl inward history, hence the $5,700 disengage slot money treasure pool.
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— Live! Casino & Hotel City of Brotherly Love (@LiveCasinoPHL) February 7, 2023