There are more than 1,000 slot machines on the Live! Casino & Hotel gaming floor this week in Bossier City as Cordish Co. is preparing to open its new resort in Louisiana.
The big question: when will the jackpots start ringing?
“We are still on track for early 2025,” Joshua Robinson, vice president of marketing, told USA Today Network on Thursday without disclosing the specific target date. “We’re getting closer and closer every day.”
Construction on the $270 million project continues across all phases – casino, event spaces, hotel and restaurants – as well as the hiring of 750 permanent employees.
More than 1,000 slot machines and electronic gaming devices are loaded onto the Live! Casino & Hotel in Bossier City, La., casino floor as Cordish prepares to open its new Louisiana resort in the first quarter of 2025.
“When the first (slot machines) hit the ground, this became an active gaming area,” Robinson said, meaning specific security must be in place and no one under the age of 21 is allowed on the gaming floor, even during construction. “Seeing these machines on the gaming floor is another milestone.”
Robinson said the slot machines represent the industry’s favorite gaming consumer brands, from Dragon Cash to the traditional Double Diamond.
In total, the casino will offer 47,000 square meters of gaming space.
Live! will be the first land-based casino in the Shreveport-Bossier market.
Cordish executives have promised that the new Live! Casino will be a destination resort that will attract conventions and tourists from beyond Louisiana’s borders.
“It will have a quality and energy that, when you walk into this property, you will feel like you are in a premier casino and resort in the top gaming markets, including Las Vegas,” said Jon Cordish, partner at The Cordish Companies, in an earlier interview with USA Today Network.
The available vacancies are listed Louisiana.LiveCasinoHotel.com/Careers and include positions across all resort operations, including hotel, gaming, finance, marketing, human resources, information technology, food and beverage, facilities, security and surveillance and more.
Robinson said customers will experience “a wow factor” when they enter, from the gaming floor to the entertainment venues and restaurants such as The Prime Rib and Luk Fu.
“It will be a fully immersive entertainment destination,” he said.
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Greg Hilburn covers Louisiana state politics for the USA TODAY Network. Follow him on Twitter @GregHilburn1.
This article originally appeared on Shreveport Times: When will Live! opened in Bossier? Rental of casinos, installation of slot machines
