Lumiere Casino
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| Lumière Place | |
|---|---|
| Location | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Address | 999 N. 2nd St. |
| Opening date | December 19, 2007 |
| No. of rooms | 500 |
| Total gaming space | 75,000 sq ft (7,000 m2) |
| Casino type | Land-based |
| Owner | Gaming and Leisure Properties |
| Operating license holder | Caesars Entertainment |
| Architect | Marnell Corrao Associates |
| Coordinates | 38°38′01″N90°11′06″W / 38.63368°N 90.18487°WCoordinates: 38°38′01″N90°11′06″W / 38.63368°N 90.18487°W |
| Website | lumiereplace.com |
Lumiere Casino St Louis
Lumière Place is a casino hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. It is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Caesars Entertainment.
History[edit]
Located in downtown St. Louis, Lumière Place opened on December 19, 2007.[1] The resort overlooks the Mississippi River and sits less than one mile (1.6 km) from the Gateway Arch and is within walking distance of the Dome at the Americas center and Busch Stadium.[2] Lumière Place houses two hotels, HoteLumière and the only Missouri hotel to receive the AAA Five Diamond Award, Four Seasons St. Louis.[3]
Lumière Place won the Readers' Choice award for 'Best Casino' in the 2013 Riverfront Times Best of St. Louis awards.[4]
In March 2014, Lumière Place hosted a World Series of Poker Circuit tournament.
In April 2014, Tropicana Entertainment acquired the Lumière Place complex from Pinnacle Entertainment for $260 million.[5]
In April 2018, Tropicana struck an agreement to sell its real estate assets, including Lumière Place, to Gaming and Leisure Properties (GLP), while Eldorado Resorts (now Caesars Entertainment) would buy Tropicana's operating business and lease its properties from GLP.[6] The deal provoked anti-competition concerns because it would leave GLP as the owner of all six casinos in the St. Louis area (though without operational control of any of them).[7] The Missouri Gaming Commission rejected the sale because of these concerns, and the deal was modified such that Eldorado would acquire the Lumière Place real estate for $246 million, financed by a loan from GLP.[8][9] The sale was completed in October 2018.[9]
Two years later, the Commission reversed its decision and authorized GLP to own Lumière Place.[10] GLP took ownership of the property in October 2020 in satisfaction of the loan, and leased it back to Caesars for $23 million per year.[11]
Facility[edit]
The 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m2) Lumière Place casino floor features approximately 1,450 slots, 55 tables and a 10-table poker room.
HoteLumière has 294 all-suite guest rooms and the 19-story Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis has 200 rooms, including 14 suites.[12]
The property also features the 453-seat Lumière Theatre for live entertainment. Since its debut in 2008, Lumière Theatre has played host to The Go-Go's, Joan Rivers, Thunder from Down Under, Louie Anderson, John Witherspoon, Chippendales, Brandy, Eddie Money, Chrisette Michele, WBF Championship Boxing, mixed martial arts fights[13] and even the taping of an episode of TLC’s Cake Boss where Buddy Valastro unveiled a 700-pound (320 kg) cake featuring Lumière Place and other St. Louis landmarks.[14]
The resort was designed by Marnell Corrao Associates,[15] the Las Vegas-based architectural firm that also built the Bellagio for 508 million.[16] To satisfy state law that only allows for gambling on floating platform within a 1000 foot distance of the Missouri and Mississippi river, the casino floor is actually an eight-foot-thick concrete raft afloat in a basin holding more than 1.5 million gallons of purified water.[17] The architectural design used advanced construction techniques employing continuous concrete pour to achieve a water tight basin on which a 'barge' is floated. Visitors to the facility have no indication that the casino floor is technically floating.
References[edit]
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- ^Lumière Place Casino Opens in Downtown St. Louis
- ^Lumière Place St. Louis
- ^Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.
- ^Best Casino-2010
- ^'Tropicana Entertainment Inc. announces completed purchase of Lumiere Place Casino & hotels in St. Louis, Missouri' (Press release). Tropicana Entertainment. April 1, 2014. Retrieved 2015-02-10 – via PR Newswire.
- ^'Eldorado Resorts, owner of 4 Missouri casinos, buys Lumière Place in St. Louis as Carl Icahn cashes out'. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. April 16, 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
- ^Brian Feldt (April 22, 2018). 'After Tropicana deal, one real estate firm could own every St. Louis area casino'. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
- ^'Commission Resolution No. 18-049'(PDF). Missouri Gaming Commission. September 26, 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
- ^ ab'Eldorado Resorts completes Tropicana Entertainment acquisition' (Press release). Eldorado Resorts. October 1, 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
- ^Jacob Barker (June 24, 2020). 'In reversal, Missouri Gaming Commission allows one landlord for area casinos'. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
- ^Form 10-Q: Quarterly Report (Report). Gaming & Leisure Properties. October 28, 2020. p. 20 – via EDGAR.
- ^Lumière Place HotelsArchived 2010-09-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^Lumière TheatreArchived 2010-04-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^Dishing it OutArchived 2010-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^'MA Engineering__ Lumiere Place'. maengineering.com. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
- ^Marnell Carrao AssociatesArchived 2010-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^'Lumiere Place Casino - Hunter Douglas Architectural'. www.hunterdouglasarchitectural.com. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
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Lumiere Place Casino
Location:
St. Louis, MO, United States
Architect/Specifier:
Marnell Architecture
Lumiere Place, St. Louis's newest gaming palace, just dramatically raised the ante on the riverboat casino scene: it's a $507 million, 24-story, Las Vegas-style complex that incorporates a 'boat,' to technically satisfy Missouri's legal standards for casinos. The building rises several blocks away from the Mississippi river, but the casino floor is actually an eight-foot-thick concrete raft afloat in a basin holding more than 1.5 million gallons of water. Secured in place by 100 vertical retaining rods, it's said to be seaworthy, but it's not going on any cruises. Casino guests never even see the water.
Designed by Las Vegas-based Marnell Architecture, the complex delivers Las Vegas-style high-rise bling to the St. Louis scene without apology. It cost $142 million more to build than the Cardinals' new Busch Stadium, opened in 2006. Its most dramatic feature, a sculptural yoke that swoops up and over the building, is dwarfed by Eero Saarinen's iconic Gateway Arch, 630 feet high and only half a mile away. But Lumiere's glowing collar is backlit with 42,550 linear feet of LEDs that can project 16 million colors and any desired array of patterns.
Inside the 75,000 square-foot casino and lobby, the architects selected Hunter Douglas' Torsion-Spring Plank & Tile simulated wood laminate ceiling system. The owner, Pinnacle Entertainment, was looking for a more intimate feeling than in the newest generation of Las Vegas casinos, says Marnell Corrao's president of architecture, Brett Ewing. The design utilized two contrasting wood tones, Hunter Cherry and Russian Maple, to create a 'parquet' effect consisting of 4'x4', 2'x'4 and 2'x'2 panels. In addition, plaque diffusers were provided by Hunter Douglas in matching wood tones to blend. Light openings were factory-cut for precision to optimize clean, finished appearance. The ceiling features the Torsion-Spring panels which swing down for easy point-accessibility. The design also required for the ceiling trims to be approximately 1' off the wall. Hunter Douglas met this requirement with their straight and curved EdgeLine trims.
Outside, the complex comprises the low-rise building that encloses the casino gaming floor (and its unseen moat), a 2,000-space parking garage, and a 200-room hotel in the form of a sapphire glass box. The casino greets Laclede's Landing Historic District - the site of the original village of St. Louis, 224 years old - with a sober facade of brick and stone. Ewing says its materials reflect the historic Laclede's warehouses, while the proportions and visual rhythm recall Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel. Less straight-faced is the swoopy porte-cochere, hosed at night with colored light, that revives the 'Googie' California restaurant architecture of the '60s. And then there's the light bar, which wraps itself over the blue box in an embrace that's now the most prominent fixture in St. Louis's night sky.
The light bar might be more intriguing engineering than the casino-floor 'boat,' which has actually been done before. It's a perforated aluminum skin over a milk-white translucent acrylic, so it reads as a bronze-colored solid in the daylight but a glowing bar at night. Ewing admits there was some conscious sense of fabricating a kin to the Saarinen arch. 'But to us, it was a complement,' he says. 'Not a competitor.'
The glowing arch, intriguingly, seems to have aroused little controversy locally. For years, Deputy Mayor for Development Barbara Geisman has been urging more downtown property owners to illuminate their buildings at night, symbolizing a 24/7 environment. Frank Mares, deputy superintendent of the Jefferson National Memorial, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he wasn't concerned that Lumiere's arch might upstage Saarinen's. 'Anything that makes the skyline better is great,' he said.
The newspaper, however, did grope a bit for the city's soul in an editorial published the day of Lumiere's December 2007 opening. Maybe deep down, the Post-Dispatch said, 'we are slightly embarrassed at how fast and how deep we've gotten in hock to the gambling industry. On the hallowed shore where Lewis and Clark pulled their canoes from the water ... we have fostered the construction of temples to the fast buck and glitzy entertainment.' However, it was St. Louis's own mayor, Francis G. Slay, who back in 2001 invited the building of a mega-casino to compete with the suburban operations. It means more tax revenue for the city, as well as new life - and bright lights - for downtown.
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