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NBC4 is reporting that the proposed Arena District Casino would be branded as a “Hollywood Casino”, similar to its Indiana counterpart. In the article, a representative says that renderings won’t be made available before election day, but states that the casino will be a single-story structure with an attached parking garage, and will include a performance stage and dining options.
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Proposed Casino to be Branded as Hollywood Casino
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Also, how arrogant is it to brand this “Hollywood Casino?” There’s not a name that would be a better fit locally? The Scioto Casino? The Buckeye Casino? Nothing closer to home than Hollywood?
Hollywood Casino
FAIL
I’m happy and proud to say that all of my friends that were voting “yes” before, but have now found out that it is a 1 story pathetic excuse for a casino, are now voting “no” with me.
before this story broke, i thought this was a landslide. a home run. now if the church advocates want to squash this vote here in columbus, all they have to do is expose the truth on what they want to put here.
does anyone else not remember the promise of “vegas style casinos” in their ads and commercials? i mean yes, i understand that we won’t have anything truly vegas, but come on! this is an insult, and will only hurt columbus.
I really hope voters don’t approve plans for casinos. I don’t think this is how we (Ohio) want to solve our financial problems.
I also think certian proponents of the casino – those who will vote “yes” simply because a casino in Columbus sounds fun – will be pretty disappointed with the final product.
I had the distinct pleasure of being stranded in downtown Detroit for a whole Saturday a couple weeks ago (long story). We made our way into the Greektown casino just to kill some time. It was the most depressing thing I’ve seen in a long time – it made the previous 4 or 5 hours wandering aimlessly around the rest of the empty city the highpoint of my trip. It was cramped, crowded (the only place we saw any sort of mass of people in the whole city) and filled with people that clearly weren’t making the best choice by being there. This “Hollywood Casino” concept sounds like it will be about half what Greektown had to offer (in terms of space and “amenities”). If that’s the best they can do if this thing passes, we are in big big trouble.
Didn’t we learn over the last 20 some years that building a bland structure with no connectivity to it’s walkable surroundings is a recipe for failure?
You have the Jackets and now the Clippers as the current draw in the AD. Is there any consideration to recognize that draw and include it as part of the casino? Maybe a separate room with table games that would feature some NHL or MLB action on a big screen while you play.
The restaurants are typical corporate casino fare. Why not approach CORA and other industry associations in Central Ohio to bid out 3-4 food contracts and allow one of the best assets Columbus has shine through?
What about a roof top bar to take in the skyline (and RW&B) in the evening?
Casinos are trashy as hell. Columbus doesn’t need any more trashy, we’ve already got the West side.
I was going to vote “yes” now I will have to reconsider. One story in an urban area? I am sure the parking garage will be several stories. I don’t know how much sq. footage they are planning, but I am sure they could be multiple stories with ease. I believe the market for the Columbus casino is there just from rural Ohioans visiting the city from Springfield and Dayton across to Zanesville. Heck they can easily use the AD warehouse look as a design model.
I think if this issue fails it is because the developer didn’t release renderings before the vote. Cleveland and cincy location are to be indentical. I think ours is to match Toledo’s casino. Maybe more information will come out ahead of the vote.
There should be a commercial on television that says, “By the way the casino will be one floorâ€Â.
Instant NO on 3
I dont need the Bellagio, but I would expect at least a 10 -15 story hotel attached to it with the Casino itself being 4 stories. Imagine having a room that looked over the baseball stadium. Now that’s something I’d vote yes for.
I think part of the deal was to not build another hotel to compete with the hotels that already exist downtown. That makes sense.
@Joev – You are correct
http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/09/24/copy/casinos_cvbs.ART_ART_09-24-09_A1_MTF5UHT.html?adsec=politics&sid=101
“Besides offering a direct annual financial contribution to Experience Columbus, Penn National said it would not build a hotel to go along with its casino in the Arena District, nor would it build large-scale meeting space. The latter items would alleviate concerns about competition with existing hotels and the convention center.“
Wait…aren’t we building a new hotel to add more rooms and get more conventions. I’m confused…
Snarf Says: October 9th, 2009 at 11:25 am Casinos are trashy as hell. Columbus doesn’t need any more trashy, we’ve already got the West side.
plenty of trash floating around Franklin park too bud…..
@lifeontwowheels – exactly!!! how many studies have we seen that say we need multiple new hotels? We are thousands of beds behind places like Indy. Sounds to me like an excuse not to build a hotel and build the cheapest structure possible. The large meeting space … fine.
Maybe we can trade with Clintonville. They can have the McCasino and keep the sky view and the AD can get some proper, dense development.
I think everyone involved would rather see a nice, clean, standard convention hotel close to the Convention Center than one way over at the west edge of the Arena District with no guarantee of quality. Bringing another big new hotel player to the game now could jeopardize the hotel plan near the Cap. Like I said before: there’s good development and there’s bad development.
I think the issue is Experience Columbus doesn’t want to have an all-in-on casino facility.
If the complex has a casino, hotel and conference rooms customers wouldn’t have much reason for leaving. Additionally, the new hotel being proposed on high street I thought was a partnered agreement with whoever the city decides to let run it, so the city would have some input and direction with it . In the hotel casino case, the city would not have any say on it.
Again here, not sure where I got this information. I could be more than likely wrong here. I thought read that information on the new hotel on high somewhere in dispatch.
My impression of Casinos is that they tend to be almost intrinsically bad development in terms of energizing neighborhoods and spreading the wealth. The hopes some had in Detroit of a large casino energizing downtown were never realized. People who frequent casinos apparently tend to stay inside the casino. I’ve heard that Nationwide is not thrilled about a casino potentially coming to the Arena District – is this true?
Casinos in midwest cities are like wal-marts in that they take customers away from smaller businesses/restaurants/venues, they’re tacky, built cheaply, and sell you on cheap crap that you don’t need. Why not just put casino games in the first floor of the Hyatt Regency? Boom! Hotel, conference, and gambling!