Sands BethWorks
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Sands BethWorks is a proposed casino in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The casino will be owned, operated, and constructed by the Las Vegas Sands corporation. It was one of five out of thirteen casinos to be awarded a slots licence by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on December 20, 2006. The casino is slated to open July 2008. It will be located on the former Bethlehem Steel land on the southside of the city.
Phase 1, estimated at $350 million, consists of a casino and hotel with an industrial look. The casino will have 3,000 slot machines, a 300-room hotel, a multi-screen movie theater, dozens of restaurants and upscale retail shops and also a parking garage for nearly 6,000 vehicles. The site has a total of 126 acres. This enables the casino to grow and donate pieces of land to allow ArtsQuest, a local arts foundation, to build a performing arts center and 3,500-seat concert hall, and the creation of the National Museum of Industrial History to honor the history of Bethlehem Steel.
Plans also exist for as many as 1,200 loft apartments. This brings the full project cost to $879 million. Upon final completion, it would be one of the largest casinos in the whole state and probably the largest.[1][2]
