Live! Casino Free State far-famed its 10-year day of remembrance this hebdomad past gifting 100 of its Anne Arundel County workers a 15-minute shopping spree at Costco.
The Cordish Companies, a Baltimore-based casino and hospitality firm, calls Live! Free State Casino its flagship property. Cordish developed and opened the Hanover cassino nigh BWI Airport a decade ago. The cassino opened on June 6, 2012. Its hotel was added years later.
Cordish agreed to sell the resort to Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc., the real demesne investment swear controlled by Penn National Gaming, in December 2021. But Cordish continues to operate the dimension through and through a leaseback accord that is to running through at least 2062.
Cordish executives are well-known for giving plump for to the communities inwards which it operates. They also feature a fun side, with Chairman David Cordish frequenting the Live! Maryland gambling casino story handing out $100 bills to guests.
In keeping with that, Cordish took clip this calendar week to fete its workers. The gambling casino drew names of 100 lucky employees who were granted the chance to tally rampant through a Costco warehouse store, grabbing nearly anything they wished on the company’s tab.
Supermarket Sweep
Cordish employs around 1,900 people at Live! Casino Maryland. Earlier this month, the stiff drew 100 lucky names through and through a lottery to check who would ladder through and through the local Costco inwards Hanover.
Cordish says the 100 big-box sweepers ran upwardly a to a greater extent than $336,000 tab during the 15-minute cannonball along — or an mediocre of nearly $3,400 per “shopper.” The cassino paid for all 100 shopping carts, which complies with Costco’s membership rules.
From robot vacuums and cookware to fireworks and the finest cuts of steak, the Live! Casino employees loaded the costliest items into their oversized shopping carts.
Live! Casino & Hotel MD represents the best of our Live! brand and is really a moil of sexual love for me and my family,” said David Cordish inward a word release. “To establish such a successful belongings and create lasting relationships with our community of interests is incredibly sweet and we are excited to celebrate this milepost with those who have contributed the most – our Team Members and our loyal guests.”
Live! inwards 2021 was, for a 5th sequent year, the second-highest grossing cassino of Maryland’s half dozen commercial gaming properties. The Anne Arundel gambling casino won almost $487 meg from gamblers through its one-armed bandit machines, and another $205.3 meg on its tabularize games.
Last twelvemonth was a banner year for Live!, as its just about $692 meg inwards revenue gaming revenue bettered the $422.5 million one-armed bandit win and $178.3 trillion table have the cassino won inward pre-pandemic 2019.
Maryland’s casinos are thirstily awaiting the state’s go-ahead to commence sports betting operations. Live! has already been deemed an approved sportsbook operator, but must waitress for the MD Sports Wagering Application Review Commission to commit it the greenlight to go for its first wagers.
Anniversary Wraps Up
Live! Maryland Casino Hotel illustrious its 10th anniversary all month long through and through its promotion, “A Decade of Wins.” Each day, gamblers submit on the casino story participating inward the casino’s My Live! Rewards computer programme were entered for a chance to win $10,000 cash.
The cassino held various surprise giveaways throughout the month, too. Last week, the cassino spontaneously decided to reinforcement 10 Live! Rewards participants who feature been members since 2012 with $1,000 hard cash each.
Cordish also gave backrest to the community, as its workers on June 17 volunteered their time with the United Way of Central Maryland. The volunteers participated inward a beautification of a public park. Live! also made a $1 one thousand thousand scholarship grant to Anne Arundel Community College’s Hospitality Scholarship Program. Cordish testament wee-wee a $100,000 yearbook donation o'er the next 10 years to the local college.