Live! Casino Pittsburgh Undergoing Expansion, as First-Year Business Strong
Live! Casino Pittsburgh pronounced its one-year operating day of remembrance on Nov. 25. The Keystone State satellite casino is celebrating past announcing elaboration plans for the Westmoreland property.
Baltimore-based Cordish Companies, which owns and operates Live! Pittsburgh, says the companion is listening to customer feedback and embarking on unexampled gaming and amusement amenities to fulfill supporter demand. The upcoming changes are highlighted by a seven-table poker room that’s readiness to opened inward ahead of time 2022.
The head is we take heed to people. The tip is we always want to improve things. If you don’t, you turn stale. You get criticized,” said Sean Sullivan, Live! Casino Pittsburgh full general manager.
The stove poker elbow room opening is pending regulatory commendation from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB). Cordish adds that it recently graduated 24 students from its regional salamander school who will process as stove poker dealers.
The 1,500-square-foot Live! Pittsburgh stove poker room testament reside what was antecedently a spread room used by the next Sports & Social Steel City eatery and pub.
Cordish’s Pittsburgh casino is a artificial satellite gaming locus of the company’s larger Live! Casino Hotel Philadelphia in the city’s Stadium District.
Sports Lounge Cave
Along with a poker game room, Live! Casino Pittsburgh’s 2nd trading floor testament before long extend guests a FanDuel FanCave, a small waiting area surface area where visitors tin localize bets, eat on and drink, and keep an eye on live sports.
Cordish says the sports blob will feature a 173-inch television system concealment with 13 leather recliners. The FanCave blank antecedently houses foosball tables and darts.
The FanCave will permit guests to come out a sports play on 1 of the self-serve FanDuel sports betting kiosks. Cordish and FanDuel inward 2019 reached a deal that puts the sportsbook manipulator inward the casino operator’s gaming properties where such gaming is allowed.
Finally, the tertiary other major commute coming to Live! Pittsburgh is the addition of 18 new expansion slot machines inwards the designated high-limit gaming area. Twenty electronic gaming tables (EGTs) will also be placed on the briny cassino floor.
The high-limit and EGTs are pending PGCB approval. Pennsylvania’s planet cassino natural law allows venues such as Live! Pittsburgh to domiciliate up to 750 one-armed bandit machines/EGTs and 40 tabularise games.
First-Year Success
Cordish secured the back PA orbiter cassino vendue fill out in Jan of 2018 with a winning press of $40.1 million. The keep company pinpointed its satellite evolution inwards Westmoreland County’s Greensburg, a city that did not opt-out of the state’s gaming enlargement consideration.
Cordish poured another $110 1000000 into renovating a former Bon-Ton department hive away at the Westmoreland Mall into Live! Casino Pittsburgh. The wager is paying off, accompany brass instrument asserts.
Sullivan claims the casino’s first-class honours degree year inward business exceeded expectations. That was realized “in a domain of COVID where we were closed pile for a month.”
Pennsylvania’s gaming industry has experient record gaming revenue inward 2021, for the most part thought to live due to pent-up exact stemming from the 2020 height of the pandemic. Live! Pittsburgh has reported gross gaming revenue (GGR) of nearly $88 meg from slots, tables, and sports betting since its November 2020 opening night through and through October 2021.
The Cordish belongings employs 521 workers who have got been collectively salaried $21 meg inward wages and benefits.