Plans include a 40,000 square feet of meeting and convention space, 500 hotels rooms, a spa, pool, fitness center, restaurants - some bearing the name of Gordon Ramsey - bars, and a 2,500 seat live entertainment venue.
22 with the removal of an old water tower and demolition will continue in the coming weeks.Ĭaesar’s Virginia Casino & Resort, Danville is slated to have more than 1,400 slot machines and tables and a 25-table World Series of Poker poker room. In an email, Danville City Councilman Lee Vogler said site demolition began the week of Sept.
Of perspective the next closest competition will be Liberty University’s 213 foot tall Freedom Tower. The only thing taller will be the three 220-foot tall smokestacks left over from the old Dan River Mill - “the Three Sisters,” as they’re known locally. Caesar’s Virginia Casino & Resort, Danville is expected to tower over Danville but it also will tower over some of the competition.Īt 18 stories, it will be far taller than the next tallest building in Danville - the 122 foot Danville Masonic Lodge, which is equal to about 10 hotel floors.
