Live! Casino & Hotel Louisiana has dropped an early Christmas present with the announcement of an official opening date.
Bossier City’s newest gaming venue, and north Louisiana’s first land-based casino, will open on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, pending approval by the Louisiana Gaming Control Board.
The inaugural entertainment lineup features concerts by Walker Hayes on Feb. 28, The Commodores on March 7, Matt Matthews on March 8, and Clint Black on March 29. Those are ticketed events.
The property has also opened reservations for its Luxury Live! Hotel. A deluxe king room rate ranges from $169 to $399 depending on the day of the week.
Debuting opening weekend will be the Sports & Social sports bar, the PBR Cowboy Bar, Luk Foo Asian fusion restaurant, The Prime Rib upscale steakhouse, and Ridotto Grand Café, with Italian specialties, breakfast, lunch and dinner daily and a coffee bar.
Artwork in progress at Luk Fu restaurant at Live! Casino & Hotel Louisiana, in Bossier City, La., shown here on Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. The piece was designed by Fin DAC.
By JILL PICKETT | Staff photographer
Live! owner Cordish Companies has been steadily working toward this point. In the past couple of weeks, the property has opened its doors to tours as hundreds of slot machines arrived on the casino floor, and on Monday, Dec. 16, it invited several hundred guests to take a tour of the casino, restaurant, event and hotel space.
The property, which opened as the Isle of Capri Casino and closed as Diamond Jacks, has been completed rehabbed in a $270 million property upgrade.
The rehab brought all gaming on land and into 47,000 square feet in the main pavilion. There is a 550-room hotel with penthouse and presidential suite options, and a 25,000-square-foot event area.
In an interview with The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate in June, Live! Executive Vice President and General Manager John Chaszar talked about the impact he believes the new casino will have on the market.
“I equate this as Disney World coming to Orlando where it just changes everything in the market. We’re in the entertainment business, it’s part of our culture, our amenities aren’t just open on the weekends,” Chaszar said.
Construction continues at Live! Casino Hotel & Louisiana in Bossier City. See what rooms and the event center look like, and the progress …
The Bossier City casino expects to generate $35 million in gaming tax revenues for city coffers and more than $168 million for the state in the first five years of operations. But what the casino will not be generating is Bossier City and parish property tax, at least for the first 10 years. Bossier’s taxing entities voted to waive $20 million in property taxes for 10 years.
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