Bally’s Kansas City casino considering new hotel after $50M expansion
Fresh off completion of its $50 million land-based expansion, Bally’s Corp. has started kicking the tires on a potential hotel outside its riverfront casino in Kansas City.
Rhode Island-based Bally’s and Overland Park-based True North Hotel Group have discussed building a 123-room hotel outside Bally’s Kansas City Casino. The casino owner has expressed interest in pursuing the possibility, according to its landlord, the Port Authority of Kansas City.
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Port commissioners on Monday authorized amendments to the casino’s lease terms with the local agency and city that would need to be executed before such a hotel could be built.
Bally’s Kansas City is the only casino property without a hospitality component on the Missouri side. The other three — Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City, Argosy Casino Hotel & Spa and Harrah’s Kansas City Hotel & Casino — have 184, 258 and 392 hotel rooms, respectively.
Master plans for Bally’s Kansas City, formerly the Isle of Capri, for years have included a hotel as part of a second development phase after completion of the property’s 35,596-square-foot retail and dining addition.
A seven-story, 150-room hotel was depicted just to the west in plans the City Council approved in 2021. They noted that the project, along with a 3,000-seat amphitheater and expansion of the existing parking garage, could break ground within five years of the addition.
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