“We’re going to attract customers from all around.”ĭanville is an old mill town on the Dan River, surrounded by rural farmland.

“We love the location we have here in Danville,” said Caesars Virginia General Manager Chris Albrecht. That’s slated to open sometime next year. Next door, on the sprawling site of an old mill on the Dan River, Caesars is building a 500-room hotel and casino resort.

The casino is just over the border from North Carolina, a little over an hour from the Triangle and Triad regions of North Carolina. It officially opens to the public on Monday at 10 a.m.

Virginia regulators in 2020 gave the green light for four casinos along the state's southern border, including the one in DanvilleĪ 40,000-square-foot tent serves as Caesar's new temporary casino in Danville, Virginia.

Caesars is looking to North Carolina for both players and workers at its Danville casino.

North Carolina's casinos, run by the Eastern Band of the Cherokee and the Catawba Nation, are all in western North Carolina.

Caesars is opening a 40,000-square-foot temporary casino in Danville, Virginia, about an hour from the Triangle and Triad.

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