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Hard Rock Casino Ottawa is asking for permission to add another 20 table games, a multi-storey hotel and a theatre has part of its development application filed at city hall.
If city council approves the land-use changes for the former Rideau Carleton Raceway property on Albion Road, there will be a total of 55 table games phased in over the expansion.
Hard Rock is also looking to add 750 slot machines, according to its timeline of the project, but it’s not clear if the slot expansion is part of the development application. There are currently 1,250 slot machines at the casino.
The company says it will invest more than $318 million over six years.
The city’s committee of adjustment approved 14 additional table games last November, a process that raised eyebrows at city hall since the application didn’t go through the political gauntlet. The committee of adjustment agreed it was a minor change to the current land regulations not requiring council’s endorsement.
Since then, the “Rocksino” partnership, as it’s become known, of Hard Rock and the Rideau Carleton Raceway has hired Ottawa-based public relations experts to help usher the new development application through the planning process. The application will need the approval of the agriculture and rural affairs committee and council.
A public consultation on the development application is scheduled for March 7. The time and location are being worked out.
The province announced Hard Rock as the new operator for the Ottawa casino operation at the horse track in May 2017. The company said it wanted to expand the existing facility to add the hotel, concert theatre and restaurants over multiple phases. Hard Rock, which is the majority owner in the partnership with the raceway, assumed operations last fall. Horse racing will remain as part of the expanded facility.
The new development application details plans for phases two and three of the expansion. The first phase is underway with renovations to the current building and the addition of table games approved by the committee of adjustment.
The second phase starting in 2019 would include the addition of slot machines, restaurants and the concert theatre. The third phase starting in 2023 would include the hotel and parking garage.
The City of Ottawa, which receives a cut of gaming revenue, is poised to make $43 million in new revenue over 10 years thanks to the expanded facility, Hard Rock says. City hall has budgeted to receive $5.6 million in 2018 from the gaming operations.
Hard Rock has posted more information about the expansion on its project website.
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If city council approves the land-use changes for the former Rideau Carleton Raceway property on Albion Road, there will be a total of 55 table games phased in over the expansion.
Hard Rock is also looking to add 750 slot machines, according to its timeline of the project, but it’s not clear if the slot expansion is part of the development application. There are currently 1,250 slot machines at the casino.
The company says it will invest more than $318 million over six years.
The city’s committee of adjustment approved 14 additional table games last November, a process that raised eyebrows at city hall since the application didn’t go through the political gauntlet. The committee of adjustment agreed it was a minor change to the current land regulations not requiring council’s endorsement.
Since then, the “Rocksino” partnership, as it’s become known, of Hard Rock and the Rideau Carleton Raceway has hired Ottawa-based public relations experts to help usher the new development application through the planning process. The application will need the approval of the agriculture and rural affairs committee and council.
A public consultation on the development application is scheduled for March 7. The time and location are being worked out.
The province announced Hard Rock as the new operator for the Ottawa casino operation at the horse track in May 2017. The company said it wanted to expand the existing facility to add the hotel, concert theatre and restaurants over multiple phases. Hard Rock, which is the majority owner in the partnership with the raceway, assumed operations last fall. Horse racing will remain as part of the expanded facility.
The new development application details plans for phases two and three of the expansion. The first phase is underway with renovations to the current building and the addition of table games approved by the committee of adjustment.
The second phase starting in 2019 would include the addition of slot machines, restaurants and the concert theatre. The third phase starting in 2023 would include the hotel and parking garage.
The City of Ottawa, which receives a cut of gaming revenue, is poised to make $43 million in new revenue over 10 years thanks to the expanded facility, Hard Rock says. City hall has budgeted to receive $5.6 million in 2018 from the gaming operations.
Hard Rock has posted more information about the expansion on its project website.
jwilling@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JonathanWilling
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