However you wouldn’t know it from the beautiful casino floor, which offers gamblers their choice from among just under 2,000 slot machines and video poker machines. Hollywood’s site was formerly an auto parts manufacturing plant. Hollywood Casino Columbus sits on a 44 acre site across from a now-abandoned mall. This makes the Hollywood Casino Columbus the biggest casino in Ohio, with more casino floor space than many of the casinos on the Las Vegas Strip. While a contractor who built the site puts the entire building’s square footage at 285,000, reports put the actual casino floor space at 160,000 square feet. Opened in the fall of 2012 for a reported $400 million dollars, Hollywood Casino is a modern, contemporary casino owned by Penn National Gaming.
In 2009, Ohio voters passed an amendment allowing four cities to have one casino each: Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, and Columbus.Ĭolumbus also has a racino, but we’ll cover that further down. The Hollywood Casino is the only casino in Columbus, OhioĬolumbus is home to the Hollywood Casino Columbus, a spacious, Las Vegas-style casino just 7 miles west of downtown.
