Sheldon said SugarHouse could begin construction within four months of state and city approval, while the first phase of the project - included a 3,265-car garage and expanded gaming floor - will take at least two years.

The casino sent a petition to the state Gaming Control Board yesterday to get approval for it’s requested changes.

The project was approved in December 2006, but has been stalled by city and state officials. “We don’t anticipate it will be difficult,” said SugarHouse Casino President Bob Sheldon. SugarHouse Casino is hoping for state approval to build an interim casino that could open as soon as next spring - as long as they can get the cash for it.ĭevelopers of the long-delayed project along the Delaware River waterfront unveiled plans yesterday endorsed by Mayor Michael Nutter that would create a 40,000 square-foot casino surrounded by parking lots, which could eventually expand into a development with retail, residential and a hotel.īut developers admitted yesterday that they still need the cash for the project after their financing with defunct Merrill Lynch fell through. The changes also preclude developers from needing certain permits from the Army Corps of Engineers.ĬITY HALL. The updated plan from SugarHouse is set back from the Delaware River and includes pedestrian access around it. thread and we can move this discussion there so we don't get yelled at for casino talk in the development thread. There is a Sugarhouse discussion in the General Dev. I don't think that slots players will need hotel space. They don't need to build the hotel or other amenities until the market demands it.

Hopefully the fact that a nicer, more engaging casino attracting more people would be motivation enough, but with a slots barn, I don't know.Īgreed.

I don't have much of the details, so it is hard to say, but humor me for now. I'm all for the casinos, but this just seems to be inviting disaster. Forgive me for my cynicism once again, but once a temporary facility is in place, what incentive is there to provide any promised civic amenity, apart from allowing expansion of more slots? Does the city have any power at all to require them to build phase 2 in the manner in which the designs state, on any sort of timeline at all? Or can they just claim economic factors and maintain whatever they want, whenever they want, citing temporary status?

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