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Kansas Speedway celebrates topping out of Hollywood Casino - Kansas City Star

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The countdown to the opening of the Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway continued on Wednesday with a topping out ceremony, where the final exterior beam was put in place.

Officials from Kansas Entertainment, Penn National Gaming and the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City Kansas took part in the festivities at the casino site, which overlooks turn two at the

speedway and is scheduled to open by the first half of 2012, if not sooner.

“This time next year, we won’t be standing here alone,” Jim Baum, senior vice president of project development for Penn National Gaming told contractors, construction workers and guests who were celebrating the topping out. “We’ll be standing here with about 15,000 customers.”

Jeff Boerger, president of Kansas Speedway Development Corporation -- the joint venture of Penn National Gaming and International Speedway Corporation -- anticipates about 4 million annual visitors to the $300 million facility.

“We met another benchmark,” Boerger said. “We kept our commitments from day one when we pitched the project to receive a gaming license. Not only are we delivering on a first-class, destination casino, but we’ve also delivered on a second Sprint Cup event and the road course we’re going to be building."

This year, Kansas Speedway will host an additional Sprint Cup weekend on June 4-5 along with its annual Oct. 8-9 weekend, a commitment ISC chairperson and NASCAR executive vice-president Lesa France Kennedy made to state gaming officials when the track and its owner sought the casino.

The casino, which will include a 100,000-square-foot casino floor with capacity for up to 2,300 slot machines and 52 table games, a sports bar and a variety of dining and entertainment options, is Phase One of the project.

Phase Two would include a hotel, expanded gaming space, a spa, convention center and entertainment retail district, depending on market demand.

“Your work will lead to over 1,000 jobs for new workers, and families will benefit from the opportunity to be employed, to have a great job and a great experience in this community,” said Joe Reardon, mayor of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City Kansas. “This asset will generate new visitors and a new economic dynamic, not just for KCK but for this entire Kansas City region.”

The additional Sprint Cup date has led to the installation of lights for future night racing as well as the replacement of grandstand seats in the 82,000-seat speedway that opened in 2001.

“This is phenomenal,” said Kansas Speedway president Pat Warren. “There is so much growth and energy going on out here, between Sporting Kansas City, which will open (its new stadium) in June, and this facility. Two Sprint Cup races … it couldn’t be better.”

Warren said ticket sales have been strong for the new Sprint Cup date in June, which includes the NASCAR Camping World Trucks series on June 4 and Sprint Cup on June 5 but it hasn’t affected sales for the Oct. 8-9 weekend which includes the Nationwide Series and fourth race in NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup.

“We sold out of our $59 ticket,” Warren said. “So we’ve had to change our marketing message because we don’t have that ticket anymore. We still have lower prices than we’ve had in the past, because we’re selling single event tickets now, not the weekend anymore.

“People are more interested in buying the June race right now, because it’s closer, but we’re seeing purchasing for both. Some people can’t make it in June or can’t make it in October. That’s one of the reasons we split them up.”

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