Speak Up: Dover Downs Casino is no more; site renamed Bally’s Dover Casino Resort
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Dover Downs Hotel & Casino is getting a new name. Bally’s Corp. recently announced the official kickoff to its rebranding of Dover’s casino to Bally’s Dover Casino Resort. Earlier this year, then-Twin River sold the real estate associated with the Dover casino’s campus to Gaming & Leisure Properties Inc. for $144 million.
- Add high-limit coin pushers. — Lawrence M. Bremer
- Won’t be long, they’ll be doing away with racing. — Randy Bivona
- A lot of people lose home or wife or husband or family and the house. — Francis George
- Already cut free play in half. — Cathy Lippincott
- Man, hopefully, we can get AYCE crab legs on the buffet again. — Steve Watson
- I’ll still call it Dover Downs. — Michelle Elizabeth
- What did they do with the $12 million they got during COVID? — Alex Warren C
- Buy a new name. — Alex Warren C
- Worst place to lose money! Maybe they will loosen up the slots a bit now! — Ivar Haug
- Isn’t that just north of Nichols? — Steve Carter
- Does this mean we can stop using taxpayer money to bail them out? — Ted Mills
- Where is the “resort”? — Trish Sparks
- That’s why they take your money, to pay for a new name. — Bill Riley
- It was sold three or four years ago. They are just rebranding. Settle down, y’all. — Andrew E. Hansen III
- Bring poker back. — Steve Petree
- I don’t know about the “resort” part. — Mike Roberto
- Are cash-out tickets still valid? Do we keep our status of Elite? — Sharon Cook
- Maybe they will actually spend some money to make it nice. — Matt Berry
- That should save the taxpayers from having to keep paying to keep it afloat. — Chuckman Kind
- The racetrack has been separate from the hotel for a while, but they, too, just sold recently to Speedway Motorsports, who owns a lot of other tracks in the circuit. However, it does make me worried they might lose the second race, too. — Joseph Pennington
- Wonder if they will keep the horse racing going. — Billie-Jean Fink
