Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City (formerly Station Casino Kansas City) is a hotel and casino located on the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri. It is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Boyd Gaming.
The 15000 sqft casino has 2,800 slot and video poker machines, 57 table games, a live poker room with 15 poker tables, exclusive high-limit slot and table games areas, and a 184-room hotel that includes 36 mini and 12 king suites.[1]
History
The facility opened on January 16, 1997 as Station Casino. Ameristar Casinos acquired the property on December 19, 2000 and it was rebranded to its current name.
In August 2013, the property became part of Pinnacle Entertainment when that company acquired Ameristar Casinos.[2] In April 2016, the property was sold to Gaming and Leisure Properties along with almost all of Pinnacle's real estate assets, and leased back to Pinnacle.[3][4]
In October 2018, Pinnacle sold the casino's operating business to Boyd Gaming, along with three other casinos, in connection with Pinnacle's acquisition by Penn National Gaming.[5] The sale was required by antitrust regulators because Penn National already operated two casinos in the Kansas City area.[6] The sale included a perpetual license to use the Ameristar name.[7]
External links
References
- Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City Fact Sheet Pinnacle Entertainment, retrieved May 31, 2012^
- Tim Bryant. Icahn to return to St. Louis business prominence with Lumiere deal St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 21, 2013, retrieved July 23, 2016^
- Missouri Gaming Commission approves transfer of casino properties St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 23, 2016, retrieved July 23, 2016^
- Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. completes the previously announced acquisition of the real estate assets of Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. Pinnacle Entertainment, April 28, 2016, retrieved July 22, 2016^
- Boyd Gaming completes acquisition of four Pinnacle Entertainment assets Boyd Gaming, October 15, 2018, retrieved 2018-10-16^
- Andrew Vaupel. FTC orders sale of KC casino Kansas City Business Journal, October 2, 2018, retrieved 2018-10-16^
- FTC requires casino operators Penn National Gaming, Inc. and Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. to divest assets in three Midwestern cities as a condition of merger Federal Trade Commission, October 1, 2018, retrieved 2018-10-16^