Caesars Virginia Debuts in Danville

Danville, Virginia is attempting to reinvent itself as a vacationer vacation spot and is hoping for an financial increase from a brand new contributor. Caesars Virginia opened this week. It’s a $650 million venture that displays the rising development of built-in resorts focusing on enterprise teams.

The resort encompasses a 320-room resort tower, and 50,000 sq. ft of assembly and conference area together with a 2,500-seat reside leisure venue. An occasion middle on the resort contains 29,159 sq. ft of area that may accommodate 2,915 for receptions. There’s additionally an out of doors terrace. 

The brand new resort and on line casino is about 40 miles north of Greensboro, and about 45 miles away from the Greensboro/Excessive Level Airport. A few of Danville’s prime sights embrace the Danville Museum of Advantageous Arts and Historical past, the Danville Science Middle, and the Virginia Worldwide Raceway. 

Partnership and Facilities

Caesars Virginia is a three way partnership between Caesars Leisure and the Japanese Band of Cherokee Indians. Its Caesars’ first property in Virginia. It has different properties in Las Vegas, Atlantic Metropolis, Reno, Tahoe, and Cherokee, N.C.

Along with 90,000 sq. ft of gaming area, there’s a spa, pool, 12 eating places together with Ramsay’s Kitchen and the five hundred Block Meals Corridor.  

Danville metropolis officers venture the on line casino will generate a further $35 million yearly for the native economic system. 

The resort’s launch has additionally spurred the hiring of a tourism supervisor for the Metropolis of Danville and Pittsylvania County. “Caesars was on the brink of put a shovel within the floor however we had no tourism group,” mentioned Lisa Meriwether, the brand new tourism director. 

She was employed to advertise the area below the newly established tourism model, Go to SoSi. Pronounced “so see,” SoSi is a play on the geographic area of Southside Virginia.

“Danville is within the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime transformation. Our huge industries have been tobacco and textiles and that got here to a grinding halt. We’re reimagining and reinventing what Danville is. Caesars helps by taking up a venture like this in a neighborhood of 40,000 individuals,” mentioned Meriwether. 

Teams that Danville is Concentrating on 

Jennifer D. Collins, CMP, president and CEO of JDC Occasions, highlighted the worth of locations like Danville for occasions. JDC Occasions has managed army occasions in rural areas close to bases.

“The venues we selected have been much like Caesars in Danville as they supplied a one-stop-shop vacation spot for our teams,” mentioned Collins. “Resorts in areas as such can present teams with the benefit of staying in a single location to take pleasure in each the coaching and leisure.”