‘Spectacular’ $75M hotel tower over the water is planned for this MS Coast casino
A new hotel tower with a first-floor spa is on the way to Silver Slipper Casino in Hancock County in a $75 million expansion.
The new development will double the number of hotel rooms at the casino resort and include an entertainment and meeting venue.
Parent company Full House Resorts announced in a press release that it finalized terms with Secretary of State Michael Watson for a 30-year tidelands lease. The agreement is expected to be signed in the next few weeks.
This allows the company to move forward with the expansion that has been in the works for over a year, said John Ferrucci, Silver Slipper general manager.
The new hotel tower will be built out over the water on what was the Jubliee pier. It is southwest of the current hotel, so the new building won’t block the view, and every room will be waterfront.
“It’s actually pretty spectacular,” he said.
The first occupied level of the new tower will be the spa and spa suites, he said.
The new hotel will have 176 rooms, bringing the total number of rooms and suites at Silver Slipper to more than 300.
A building that connects the two hotel towers will provide space for functions. That is something Silver Slipper, which was the first casino in Mississippi built on land after Hurricane Katrina, hasn’t had before. The mix of ballroom and break-out space will accommodate 500 people for theater seating and 250 people for dinner.
Blue Bayou fine dining restaurant will move into the new space and Ferrucci said another restaurant, possibly Italian, will take over the current Blue Bayou location.
It isn’t certain yet when groundbreaking will take place for the new tower.
“It will either be late this year or late next year, depending on how other projects in our company go,” he said.
Full House Resorts is building Chamonix Casino Hotel at Cripple Creek, Colorado, and continues to compete for other casino projects.
This story was originally published March 25, 2021 at 5:50 AM.
