Rivers Casino Ready to Break Ground On Second Landing Hotel This Summer

Rivers Casino is ready to begin the construction of its second Landing Hotel in the North Shore neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Famous for its iconic sports venues such as Heinz Field and PNC Park, this neighborhood is also the home of world-class museums and award-winning attractions. And soon…

the North Shore will be getting a four-star hotel.

Project Worth $60 million

ing its sister hotel, which opened in Schenectady, the state of Pennsylvania.

The Landing Hotel Pittsburgh…

…will add approximately 128 permanent hotel and casino jobs, along with 1,400 temporary construction jobs, with Rivers Casino Pittsburgh already beginning the istrative process of applying for permits with the city.

Pittsburgh-based, Massaro Construction Group, will build the hotel based on designs by the architectural firm VOA. Klai Juba Wald is the executive architect for the hotel and related renovations while the landscape design is done by the Pittsburgh office of Strada, LLC.

At the moment, they are waiting for approval from the zoning and planning departments. After the construction starts it will take approximately 18 months to complete the project and Rivers is anticipating holding the ribbon-cutting ceremony sometime at the beginning of 2021.

Perfect Timing

Although the company received approval from the Pittsburgh Planning Commission to begin construction two years ago, the project was postponed due to the approval of gaming legislation that added category 4 mini-casinos, which the company states “reshaped the Pennsylvania casino landscape.”

In the meantime…

…Rivers Casino Pittsburgh successfully completed several significant property updates. Some among them were the opening of the gourmet burger restaurant, Flipt, opening its event center for upsized galas and expositions and launching Pittsburgh’s first licensed sportsbook.

Greg Carlin, CEO of Rivers Pittsburgh and its Rush Street owner stated:

“The time is right. Statewide gaming expansion changed our schedule, but never our intentions. Rush Street always envisioned a hotel for Rivers to create a full – service destination on the North Shore. We see it as a natural evolution.”

ALSO…

…recently, Rush Street Gaming revealed its plans to undergo a further transformation within Pennsylvania, after announcing that its Sugarhouse Casino is to introduce a series of property upgrades later this year, which is set to include a rebrand to become Rivers Casino Philadelphia.

Source:

“Rivers Casino to construct second landing hotel”, casinobeats.com, June 19, 2019.