{"id":15427,"date":"2022-08-11T15:48:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/opening-of-caesars-virginia-in-danville-news\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T15:48:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:48:33","slug":"opening-of-caesars-virginia-in-danville-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=15427","title":{"rendered":"Opening of Caesars Virginia in Danville |  news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>With dirt balls from silver shovels, Danville moved toward becoming a destination city this morning when ground was officially broken for the new Caesars Virginia casino and resort at the former Dan River site Mills.  &#8220;It&#8217;s a transformative project,&#8221; said Danville Mayor Alonzo Jones.  The $650 million resort and casino is expected to bring thousands of jobs to the area as well as visitors from around the world.  &#8220;This is more like a peso rally than a revolutionary one,&#8221; said Principal Chief Richard Sneed of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, which has joined Caesars as investment partners.  The casino is expected to open in late 2024.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chathamstartribune.com\/news\/article_25d96f42-1988-11ed-bf99-975fee020735.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With dirt balls from silver shovels, Danville moved toward becoming a destination city this morning when ground was officially broken for the new Caesars Virginia casino and resort at the former Dan River site Mills. &#8220;It&#8217;s a transformative project,&#8221; said Danville Mayor Alonzo Jones. The $650 million resort and casino is expected to bring thousands of jobs to the area as well as visitors from around the world. &#8220;This is more like a peso rally than a revolutionary one,&#8221; said Principal Chief Richard Sneed of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, which has joined Caesars as investment partners. The casino&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}