Caesars Opens Mega Sportsbook at NJ’s Monmouth Park

Caesars has opened the doorways of a monster trackside sportsbook at Monmouth Park racetrack in New Jersey. [Image: Shutterstock.com]

Caesars Leisure has lastly opened the doorways of a monster trackside sportsbook at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey, after a construct that took two years to finish. 

In keeping with a information launch, the 16,000-square-foot area comes with indoor and out of doors viewing spots, wall-to-wall video screens, and “over 25 self-service betting kiosks.”

Caesars took to X final week with information of its grand opening and pictures from the ribbon-cutting ceremony: 

In keeping with Caesars, Monmouth Park made historical past in 2018 by accepting New Jersey’s first authorized in-person sports activities wager instantly after the US Supreme Courtroom overturned the Skilled and Beginner Sports activities Safety Act (PASPA).

Caesars’ new brick-and-mortar sportsbook is a standalone constructing positioned subsequent to the racetrack’s clubhouse, with views of the monitor.

birthplace of Backyard State betting

Caesars Digital Senior Vice President and Chief Improvement Officer Dan Shapiro mentioned it was apt to open the “cutting-edge venue” on the birthplace of Backyard State betting and add to Monmouth Park’s “wealthy historical past.” 

Shapiro added: “With this funding, we’re proud to proceed to help horse racing” in New Jersey. 

Dennis Drazin, the proprietor of the racetrack, can be chair and CEO of the development agency that labored with Caesars in constructing the sportsbook. Drazin mentioned it had been “an extended battle since 2013 and, lastly, the Supreme Courtroom gave us sports activities betting in 2018.”

Drazin added that, nonetheless: “Caesars at all times had the imaginative and prescient of getting this constructing that we’re standing in now being the flagship for his or her sports activities betting fashions all through the nation.”