The company said that all its preliminary plans are subject to approval from the Louisiana Gaming Control Board and that it would unveil further additions to the Lake Charles casino’s offering in the coming months.Īs mentioned above, construction is expected to be complete by the fall of 2022. A new Brew Brothers Tap House will also complement the complex’s offering.Ĭaesars further plans to completely redesign Isle of Capri’s existing 253-room hotel tower. The land-based casino will have just under 1,000 slot machines and table games.Īs announced by Caesars last week, the new facility will further feature a World Series of Poker poker room with 10 tables and an all-new Caesars Sportsbook. The reinvented property will feature more than 60,000 square feet of gaming space, compared to the riverboat’s 45,000 square feet. The gambling facility will now be moved onto dry land to reopen in the fall of 2022 as Horseshoe Casino Lake Charles. The floating casino barge was damaged last August when Hurricane Laura’s devastating winds pushed it into the pillars supporting the nearby Interstate 10 bridge.

is set to transform its Isle of Capri Lake Charles riverboat casino into a land-based property, following its forced closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic and Hurricane Laura in 2020.