del Lago Resort and Casino is a
casino hotel
A casino hotel is an establishment consisting of a casino with temporary lodging provided in an on-premises hotel. Customers receive the benefits of both gambling facilities and lodging. Since the casino and hotel are located on the same premis ...
in
Tyre, New York, owned and operated by
Churchill Downs, Inc. It opened in 2017 at a cost of $440 million.
Facilities
The casino features 1,702
slot machines
A slot machine, fruit machine (British English), poker machine or pokie (Australian English and New Zealand English) is a gambling machine that creates a game of chance for its customers.
A slot machine's standard layout features a screen disp ...
, 66
table games, and 14
poker
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tables.
The property has nine restaurants and bars, a spa, and several retail outlets.
The resort's entertainment venue, The Vine, has 2,400 seats, and hosts various concerts throughout the year, as well as a weekly comedy night.
The parking lot features a 10 stall
Tesla supercharger
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station.
History
In 2011, former New York State governor
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Mark Cuomo ( , ; born December 6, 1957) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 56th governor of New York from 2011 until his resignation in 2021. A member of the Democratic Party and son of former governor Mario Cuomo, ...
announced his administration's intent to license casinos in
upstate New York
Upstate New York is a geographic region of New York (state), New York that lies north and northwest of the New York metropolitan area, New York City metropolitan area of downstate New York. Upstate includes the middle and upper Hudson Valley, ...
to compete with Native American
tribal casinos. However, this was contingent upon legislation that needed to pass. Cuomo came to an agreement with the legislature in 2013 to allow the casinos to operate, and then sought to locate three sites for the upstate casinos.
Wilmorite
Wilmorite Properties, Inc is a commercial real estate company based in Chili, New York, a suburb of Rochester, New York.
A subsidiary of the company owes significant back taxes and fees to the City of Rochester resulting from a loan and tax ag ...
announced its proposal for the Wilmot Casino & Resort in December 2013. In 2014,
Peninsula Pacific Entertainment joined the project as an investor, and the name was changed to Lago Resort & Casino.
The casino's location was subject to a battery of lawsuits from 2015 to the time of its construction. There were concerns over competing interests with the Finger Lakes casinos, racinos, and the casinos operated by the
Oneida Indian Nation
The Oneida Indian Nation (OIN) ( ) is a federally recognized tribe of Oneida people in the United States. The tribe is headquartered in Verona, New York, where the tribe originated and held territory prior to European colonialism, and continues ...
.
The casino opened on February 1, 2017.
Peninsula Pacific agreed in 2019 to buy out Wilmorite's stake in Del Lago, becoming the sole owner of the property.
In 2022, Peninsula Pacific sold the bulk of its assets, including Del Lago, to Churchill Downs, Inc.
References
External links
*{{Official website, https://dellagoresort.com
Casinos in New York (state)
Resorts in New York (state)
Casino hotels in New York (state)