Pinnacle Breaks Ground on $375M Destination Project
ST. LOUIS, MO, November 10, 2005. Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. has broken ground on its $375 million casino, hotel and entertainment project that will be known as River City Casino and Hotel in the St. Louis County community of Lemay.
Pinacle's site straddles the frontier between the county and the City of St. Louis. Overlooking the Mississippi River, the site is south of the confluence of the Mississippi and the River des Peres in one of the most densely populated parts of the St. Louis region.
St. Louis is the nation's 18th largest metropolitan area.
The project will open in 2008 and will include a casino with 3,000 slot machines and 60 table games, a 100-room hotel, full-service spa, restaurants, a boutique bowling alley, a multiplex movie theatre, an indoor ice rink, a public park with athletic fields and a hatch-shell music and entertainment venue.
A later phase is planned to include an approximately 280,000-square-foot retail center. Pinnacle also will build a multimillion-dollar community center in Lemay.
The project is estimated to create 7,000 jobs: 1,000 construction jobs, 2,000 permanent jobs, and an additional 4,000 ancillary service jobs in the region.
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