There are three Delaware casino properties spread throughout the state. Most Popular Casinos in Delaware Reviewed You can now play slots and table games at three giant racinos spread across The Bue Hen State.

In addition, Delaware was a pioneer in legalizing the first online casinos. Like knowing what stores, restaurants and developments are coming and going in Delaware? Join our Facebook group What's Going There in Delaware and subscribe to our What's Going There in Delaware newsletter.Delaware casinos have been legal in the state since the mid-1990s. Business boomed and competition improved in 1996 when legislation passed to allow slot machines. Today, Delaware Park is one of three casinos and racetracks in the state. Rickman revived the business by offering smaller purses, which attracted cheaper horses than in previous years. William Rickman Sr., a Maryland real estate developer, bought Delaware Park at age 63 in 1983 when the business was on the brink of extinction, facing stiff competition from neighboring racetracks. The Rickman family sold Delaware Park last November for at least $90 million to a Canadian private equity firm and a newly formed subsidiary run by gaming investor Thomas Benninger.

Titan Hospitality Group of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has submitted a plan for a four-story, 113-room hotel on a 3-acre site near the entrance to Delaware Park. Because Titan's plan is revising a previously approved plan, it is considered a minor resubdivision plan and does not require a county hearing. Its approved hotel was about 10,000 square feet larger than Titan's proposed hotel. Nick Gandhi, vice president of Blenheim Homes, declined to comment beyond sharing that Blenheim sold the property.īlenheim's plan also called for a 133-room, four-story hotel. Blenheim anticipated completing construction by January 2021.īut building never began and the lot today looks mostly as it did in 2019 with the exception of a new Delaware Park sign installed in May at Churchmans and Ogletown Stanton roads. Its goal was to attract casino-goers, business travelers and ChristianaCare visitors and take advantage of what it viewed as an underserved market. A view of the three-acre site where Titan Hospitality Group of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania plans to build a four-story, 133-room hotel at Churchmans and Ogletown Stanton roads.Īs it sought approval, beginning more than five years ago, Blenheim bought about 3 acres from Delaware Park.

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